• Aircraft:

  North American P-51D Mustang

• Reg: 44-74936 photos
• Serial #:

  122-41476

• Airline: United States - US Air Force (USAF)
• Photo Date: Nov 22, 2022
• Uploaded: May 10, 2023
• Dayton Wright-Patterson Air Force Base - KFFO, USA - Ohio

On display in the World War II Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. This was the last Mustang assigned to a USAF tactical unit. It was obtained from the West Virginia ANG in 1957 when the Mustang was phased out. It is painted as 44-11234 “Shimmy IV” flown by Lt Col Chester L. Sluder, CO of the 325th FG, who led the first shuttle-bombing mission from Italy to USSR on 2 Jun 44. This MTO Group used the black & yellow checkertail designed by Lt Col Robert L. Baseler on its aircraft for easy identification by bomber crews.

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Now marked as Shimmy IV, this aircraft retired in 1957 as the last operational propeller-driven fighter in a USAF tactical unit while named Sharp Shooter

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1944 North American P-51D Mustang "Shimmy IV" (c/n 122-41476)

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The last prop-driven fighter assigned to a tactical unit

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