Painted to represent a P-40 of the famous Flying Tigers, the First American Volunteer Group (AVG) of the Republic of China Air Force, this is actually a Kittihawk I taken up by the RAF in 1941 as AK987, transferred to the RCAF as 1068 in January 1942. Postwar it received registrations N1237N and N5673N. Crashed in Ohio in 1958, in 1965 it was loaned to the USAFM. The technical block stencilling has been left incomplete, showing only 41-

This P-40 is actually a Kittyhawk export version of the P-40E. She served with the RAF as AK987 and then the RCAF as 1068. It is on display at the National Museum of the USAF as the aircraft flown by then Col. Bruce Holloway, a pilot in both the Flying Tigers and its successor Army Air Forces unit, the 23rd Fighter Group. Registered as N1237N in 1947 and N5673N in 1948m and registration cancelled in 1972.