Red Tail P-51C honors Tuskegee Airmen

Ground shots and flybys of Red Tail project P-51C Mustang "By Request" of the Minnesota Wing of the Commemorative Air Force at the 1941 Historic Aircraft Group Airshow in Geneseo, NY, July 2001.

Then, the niece of a Tuskegee Airmen veteran gets the chance to lifetime with a backseat ride in "By Request"

This P-51C was lost along with its pilot, on May 29th, 2004.

Don Hinz, of the Red Tail project was performing at the 2004 Wings of Freedom airshow when the aircraft suffered a catastrophic engine failure. After completing a high speed pass, the sudden and unexpected failure of the Y-drive caused the engine to abruptly and completely stop. Attempting to execute a forced landing in trees near the airport, the aircraft was severely damaged and the pilot fatally injured.

The airframe is currently undergoing a second reconstruction, and restoration of the fuselage is nearing completion.

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[Garybaxter1]

Its about time the tuskegee airmen are honoured like the rest of the airmen who fought to keep our countries free.Bless them all!

[samir3323]

@Garybaxter1

Thanx for that seems people want to worship the plane more than the heros so sad.

[firstmusic00]

God bless these gentlemen for their service. Too bad our sick government waited so long to give credit where it was do.

[niinjoosum]

I just hope some day they can have a retired pilot of color fly the Tuskegee Red Tail plane. Wouldn't that be a hoot.

[ElectraGSX]

The P-47 Jug was our first "Red Tail" fighter escort. Our guys flew them in May/June 1944 and flew our first escort missions in razorback C models. Any other representation is fantasy. We flew P-51s till the end of the war and then P-47Ns with extended range and won the first USAF National Fighter Gunnery Meet in 1949 in newly designated F-47Ns,.The 332nd was disbanded after that; the final victory was our "Last Hurrah"

[7466nuts]

@Garybaxter1 they were honoured in a movie, and a great movie heros, and Mustang does it get any better.

[pilotdave1000]

America changes quickly back then this didnt happen because most whites were so damn racist they didnt give a damn but that all changed

[propfan2k]

@Mattebubben - Sometimes, but not always. The Malcolm Hood was manufactured and fitted by the British corporation R Malcolm & Co, to both B and C models. This one is a "C" model by virtue of having been manufactured in Dallas, TX rather than Inglewood, CA. but retains the original "Razorback" cockpit enclosure

[Mattebubben]

@propfan2k the C also had the British Malcom Bubbel Canopy