Aircraft History
Originally intended for the RAF with serial number ET482. Instead, allocated to USAAF 68th Fighter Squadron at Tonga.

Later, transfered to the RNZAF with serial number NZ3009 in April 1942 with tail code ZK-RMH and assigned to 14 Squadron, and served until the end of the war.

Wreckage
Sold as scrap to Asplin's Supplies, Rukuhia, NZ, 1959.

Restoration
Recovered by Charles Darby & R. H. McGarry who owned it from 1959-1994. Loaned to Museum of Transport & Technology during 1964-1994 where it was displayed in the markings of P-40 NZ3009 with tail ZK-RMH.

Restoration
Static restoration using wings of P-40 NZ3203, by Pacific Aircraft Ltd for the Old Flying Machine Company, Duxford, UK, 1994-1997 and restored to airworthy status.  Its first flight was December 1997.

Transported to the UK in February 1999, where it flew with the Old Flying Machine Co until 2002, where it flew as P-40 NZ3009.

Registered March 10, 2003 to Classic Aviation Ltd of Duxford, England as G-CCBE. Registration ZK-RMH was reserved on June 18, 2003 with the owner shown as the Old Flying Machine Co of Duxford, England

Today, operated by Breitling Fighters Team and flown in AVG markings as 663 / 88.

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Last Updated
October 28, 2009