Photo by SVD, North American P-64 used to be owned by Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston, TX, was at one point transferred to the American Royal Thai Air Classics Foundation and I haven't seen it since. Very rare bird, and flies!
I believe she is now in a museum in Thailand, began life as a T6 and converted to a P64.... SNJ-4 27560
One of the more authentic and fascinating T-6 builds was NX30CE, converted to a P-64 replica and ultimately sold to the Foundation for the Preservation and Development of Thai Aircraft. It is now displayed, and perhaps occasionally flown, by a Thai organization called the Foundation for the Preservation and Development of Thai Aircraft (Tango Squadron). They have a museum in Bangkok, open only by appointment. http://aircraft-in-focus.com/north-american-p-64/
That is NX30CE. It was built by Carl Schmieder and a crew at the Deer Valley Airport in Phx AZ. I was one of them. We sold the plane to Lone Star in 1991, they in turn sold it the Tango Squadron. The plane was powered by a R-1820 off a HU-16, 1475HP, had 2 oil coolers, O2 system, smoke system, T-6G aux tanks, the center line shackle was plumbed for a drop tank. The oil and smoke tanks as well as the o2 bottle and 2nd oil cooler were in the tail cone.
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