This week the Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk known as the “Maude P-40” arrived at the Aircraft Restoration Company’s Duxford base.
The aircraft (S/N AK803) was delivered to the RCAF in October 1941 and based at an RCAF Station in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, where it saw use in anti-submarine patrols. Later, it was flown 4,000 miles to Annette Island, Alaska (setting a record in the process) before moving on to Boundary Bay near Vancouver, British Columbia, where it performed fighter affiliation work with B-24s and B-25s. In 1946 it was acquired for $50 by George Maude, an RCAF veteran, who floated it on a makeshift log raft it to his family home.
The aircraft is now described as an in-house project owned by the Aircraft Restoration Company, which states:
It has long been a pipe dream to add a P-40 to the collection, and we have been following the journey of this particular one for over a decade. When it came onto the market, we felt it was now or never! Exciting times lay ahead
Check out photos of its arrival below.
(via Aircraft Restoration Company and Aircraft Restoration Company Top Photo: Gary Danvers Collection via Flickr)
