This P-40N was delivered to the USAAF in May of 1944 and served with the 268th AAFBU at
Peterson AAB from June 1944 until
March, 1945. The following photo shows 44-7369 leading a four-ship from Peterson.
Peterson Air and Space Museum collection -
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Personnel of the 268th AAFBU install a new propeller on P-40N 44-7369, Fall 1944.
Project 914 Archives (S. Donacik collection) - Larger Image
In March 1945 the aircraft was transferred to the 232nd AAFBU at Dalhart Field, Texas where it served until struck
off charge the following June. Fortunately, 44-7369 escaped the scrapper's torch, winding up at Cal Aero Technical
Institute located at the Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale, California. (Coincidentally, Cal Aero was formerly
known as the Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute)
From 1957 to 1970 she was part of Ed Maloney's 'Air Museum' at Claremont, and
later, Ontario, California. Since then the ship has changed hands several times, moving from California to Canada...
then back to the USA, from Colorado to Florida and finally Texas.
44-7369 is currently part of the Cavanaugh Flight Museum in
Addison, Texas.
More specific information about this airframe can be found on the following page...
P-40N/44-7369
This photo from 1964 shows 44-7369 while part of the 'Air Museum' in Ontario, California.
'wcbohannon' photo -
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This photo was taken in June of 1974 at Windsor, Ontario. Registered as C-GTGR, the aircraft was at the time owned
by Don Plumb, organizer of 'Airwar 74'. However, the pilot here is Max Hoffman, who subsequently purchased the
aircraft, owning it for only a short time before it went to John Williams of Tampa, Florida.
Peter R. Arnold photo
This photo was taken at the Lone Star Museum's 'Spirit of Flight'
air show in 2006.
Walt Bauer photo
This photo was taken at Lakeland-Linder Regional Airport upon 44-7369's arrival for Sun-n-Fun 2006.
Sergey Riabsev - Russian AviaPhoto Team -
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More of Sergey's photos can be found at Airliners.net
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