Flying Heritage Collection opens to the public in 2004

Flying Heritage Collection grand opening to public featuring Paul Allen and FHCs P-51D Mustang piloted by Steve Hinton.

This P-51 is a combat veteran that was delivered to the United States Army Air Force on January 26, 1945. It was based in Raydon, England with the 8th Army Air Force (352nd Squadron, 353rd Fighter Group), where it was assigned to Lt. Harrison B."Bud" Tordoff. Tordoff flew the aircraft in support of the daylight bombing raids against Germany throughout occupied Europe and in support of missions for the Allied ground forces during the liberation of mainland Europe.

In the summer of 2003, Captain Tordoff was reunited with this plane at the Flying Heritage Collection—the first time he had seen it since ceasefire.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Flying Heritage Collection
• P-51
• aircraft
• WarBirds Aircraft History
• Mustang

[grayparatrooper]

just the sort of thing ide do if i had gavillions of dollars