Did You Get a Whiff of That Blue Mustang? | Dakota Territory Air Museum's P-51C "Thunderbird"

Is it a vintage aircraft? Is it a warbird? Well, it's both. This is the story of the recently restored P-51C "Thunderbird," which made its public debut at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2023.
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[@aj-2savage896]

Fantastic to see it in it's actual, individual historic colors and not faked up to look like a fighter that fought in Europe.

[@darnel322]

Absolutely gorgeous. The in flight shots were spectacular!

[@bradalgra8088]

Congratulations Warren on a fantastic restoration of such a historically significant aircraft. Absolutely stunning!

[@SkyhawkSteve]

I saw it on display at Oshkosh, and it was gorgeous!! Such a great restoration! Nice work on the video too! Great in-flight video.

[@JackBlaguar]

I'm hoping it makes repeat appearances at Oshkosh. :)

[@EnterpriseXI]

King. Main thing I’m wondering about is how much of that history still remains like how much of the original metal and material is in that plane today?

[@ryanmoeller3308]

PLEASE be at Oshkosh this year! I would love to see this BEAUTIFUL aircraft in person!

[@nattybumpo7156]

Saw this thing fly every day last fall at Reno.
What a sweetheart!
I would have been sorely tempted to sneak a -9 under the cowl although i may be ignorant in that thought.

[@kertmustapha2367]

What a piece of Art!

[@55Reever]

Had the privilege to see her at Reno last year. Beautiful just Beautiful.

[@HDR12302]

awesome to see it at kosh last year, hopefully it comes to osh24

[@Bluenose352]

Beautiful Thunderbird. I hope I'll see her again soon

[@TheGilounet]

What an incredible plane with such beautiful colors. Thank you for sharing the video.

[@craigpennington1251]

Livery is phenomenal. Best wishes for your continued success.

[@Airsally]

Your a great steward of a really cool historic P-51C...stay safe.

[@timu438]

Stunningly beautiful.

[@excellenceinanimation960]

Fantastic! I hope to fly one some day!

[@Bucketnate]

Such a BEAUTIFUL mustang too.

[@rogercruickshank2655]

Saw it at Oshkosh checked out, nice 👍😎🇳🇿

[@tpf340]

great air to air shots, where were they taken?

[@TheParchisi]

I wonder why this P-51C has that leading edge wing "kink." I thought that wasn't incorporated in the design until the D model, unless this was just a purposeful modification done in the rebuild.

[@user-lk2000]

incredible!

[@AviatorJohn70]

Beautiful, so cool!

[@stevereightler4126]

Beautiful airplane!

[@Mightymouserc]

That is very cool man I’m a mustang nut , I fly rc and I have 3 mustangs ,I love your story never seen this one before so glad u brought it back to life nice done

[@georgevprochazka5316]

Nice job Sir !

[@jak5710]

At :48 there is a picture of planes on the dry lake bed. Don’t see this plane but looks like 2 other mustangs in similar paint scheme. Wonder whose those were.

[@stevetournay6103]

The aerial shot is from the '49 race and the other Mustangs would be Paul Mantz' two P-51Cs. Both those survive, one in the Smithsonian and the other (restored to stock, perhaps unfortunately) flyable with Kermit Weeks.

[@flutter8712]

Wow just wow...

[@hadleymanmusic]

Grandfather Glen McIntyre flew one for the marines in Korea

[@golfnovember]

First! Historic plane! That’s amazing!

[@thatairplaneguy]

So who crashed it and when and why? And why was it abandoned there?

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

thtairplaneguy, go back and LISTEN to he video it is explained for BOTH crashes !!!!

[@hadleymanmusic]

different fuel?

[@Pilotc180]

Oh yeah👍

[@briancavanagh7048]

Not many A, B or C models flying.

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

It looks to be modified with a "D" wing, the kick out at the fuselage ..........????

[@cookingwithcuyandotherfuns6238]

A stunning recreation but not a restoration. The airplane was completely destroyed after the pilot bailed out in 1955. N5528N, known both as Thunderbird and Mr. Alex, was being flown on a hail suppression operation by James M. Cook. After takeoff, one of the Mustang’s main landing gear failed to retract. When he was unable to resolve the problem, Cook flew the Mustang over unoccupied terrain north of Morrill, Nebraska, and bailed out.
The airplane crashed, exploded and the wreckage burned. N5528N was completely destroyed.

[@stevetournay6103]

Amazing what can be done with virtually nothing. Most of today's flyable Spitfires are the same way.
And now I'm thinking about F2G Race 74 again...

[@JE-pn5zw]

I saw it at Reno. It was like being in God's postcard.

[@agaragar21]

Jimmy Stewart the legendary Racist's plane ....good to know !

[@stevetournay6103]

Umm...What?