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43-6623 Spare Parts

The nose art of a P-51B Mustang (serial number 43-6623) nicknamed "Spare Parts". Handwritten caption on reverse: 'P-51B-15-NA nose on 43-6623.' Printed caption on reverse: '0-sox N-Spare Parts nose art U-.'

media-401044.jpg FRE 3247 The nose art of a P-51B Mustang (serial number 43-6623) nicknamed "Spare Parts". Handwritten caption on reverse: 'P-51B-15-NA nose on 43-6623.' Printed caption on reverse: '0-sox N-Spare Parts nose art U-.' Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 3247 - The nose art of a P-51B Mustang (serial number 43-6623) nicknamed "Spare Parts". Handwritten caption on reverse: 'P-51B-15-NA nose on 43-6623.'...

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Units served with

A C-47 Skytrain (serial number 43-8386) and a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-29780) nicknamed "Silver Queen" of the 95th Bomb Group.

Image via Mark Brown, AFA. Written on slide casing: 'C47 43-8386. Heston- 38D Silver Queen.'

27th Air Transport Group

Unit Hierarchy: Group
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Transport

A P-51 Mustang (VQ-C_, serial number 43-12425) of the 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group . Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: 'VII FC Tec' ops. VQ-C_.'

310th Ferry Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Ninth Air Force
Type Category: Transport

People

Langhorn S Gee

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 27th Air Transport Group 352nd Fighter Group 310th Ferry Squadron 487th Fighter Squadron
Service Numbers: O-667060
Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant

Places

Speke

Site type: Airfield

Warton

Site type: Airfield
Known as: BAD-2

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Manufactured	Inglewood, CA, USA	30 October 1943	Built by North American at its Inglewood, California plant, the aircraft was accepted by the USAAF on 30th October 1943.
Delivered	Speke, Liverpool, Merseyside L24, UK	2 February 1944	Shipped across the Atlantic arriving at the Lockheed facility at Speke on the 2nd February 1944.
Crashed		18 February 1944	Take off accident, damaged beyond economical repair, Speke, England. Pilot Langhorne S Gee.
Other Rebuilt	Warton, Warton Aerodrome, Warton, Preston, Lancashire PR4, UK	1 July 1944	Having been shipped to Warton as salvage, groundcrew rebuilt it, in their spare time, with parts from other damaged airframes. Returned to flight July 1944 as 'Spare Parts'. Used as a squadron hack.
Crashed	Irish Sea		The aircraft believed to have been lost due to a major engine failure in late 1944 possibly over the South of England or the Irish Sea, though no official report.