N1048N This P-40E did not serve in the U. S. Built in Buffalo, New York, she was delivered to Canada as a Kittyhawk IA on 11/03/1941. Declared surplus on 27/07/1946, the aircraft eventually returned to the U.S. in 1964. The Exchange Club in Meridian donated the Kittyhawk IA to the Museum in memory of Mr. Kellis Forbes, and a U.S.A.F. Reserve crew airlifted the fighter to Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, on 13/03/1964 where it was restored in 1975 and painted it to represent an aircraft of the 75th Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Group, 14th Air Force.
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