During World War II, the Mustang destroyed 4,950 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air—the most of any U.S. fighter in the European Theater. The North American P-51 Mustang may well be the most iconic U ...

On October 26, 1940, the North American NA-73X - the first prototype of what would become the iconic P-51 Mustang - took to the skies, marking the start of an aviation legend. The aircraft stood ...

The combination of speed, range, and armament made the P-51 Mustang one of the most versatile platforms of the Second World War. The North American P-51 Mustang was born out of necessity and ...

A P-51 Mustang flies over Joint Base Anacostia ... the P-51 — built by California’s North American Aviation Co. — was initially planned as an RAF low-level tactical fighter-bomber.

In 1971, Reilly was working as a skydiving instructor in Kissimmee when he took a chance ride in a P-51 Mustang. The next day, he jumped into the airplane business. He bought four North American ...

It’s the same reason North American Aviation bestowed the name Mustang on its P-51 fighter plane, and that the wild horse was a favorite subject of Old West painter Frederic Remington ...

The Canadian alpinists Will Gadd and Sarah Hueniken have repeated The Mustang P-51 (M14-) at The Fang Amphitheater, Vail, Colorado, USA. In making her ascent Hueniken has become the first North ...