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Registration: 40

Construction Number: Unknown

Model Curtiss P-6E Hawk

Operator: National Museum of the United States Air Force

Airport: Wright Patterson AFB (FFO / KFFO), USA - Ohio

Photographer: Lawrence Safir

Date Taken: 24/07/2007

Date Submitted: 30/08/2007

The only original P-6E still in existence, this P-6E appears in the colors and markings of the airplane assigned to Capt. Ross G. Hoyt, Commanding Officer of the 17th Pursuit Squadron, 1st Pursuit Group, based at Selfridge Field, Mich. in 1933. Edward S. Perkins of Anniston, Ala., donated it to the museum, and the Department of Aviation Technology at Purdue University restored it in 1963. http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=337

Picture ID:1070185

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