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P-40E Length: 31 ft X in
P-40E Empty weight: 6,3Y0 lb
The actual cache location: N41 24.93X W88 39.16Y
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P-40 Warhawk
The P-40 is best known as the aircraft used by Claire Chennault's American Volunteer Group ("The Flying Tigers"). While not an outstanding fighter, it was well used during the first half of the war (especially in the Pacific theater), until more capable types replaced it. Not counting the P-47or the P-51, it was the most extensively built US fighter, with almost 14,000 units being delivered before production ended in 1944.
The P-40's lack of a two-stage supercharger made it inferior to Luftwaffe fighters such as the Messerschmitt Bf 109 or the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 in high-altitude combat and it was rarely used in operations in Northwest Europe. Between 1941 and 1944, however, the P-40 played a critical role with Allied air forces in three major theaters: North Africa, the Southwest Pacific and China. It also had a significant role in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Alaska and Italy. The P-40's performance at high altitudes was not as critical in those theaters, where it served as an air superiority fighter, bomber escort and fighter bomber.
The P-40 had good agility, especially at high speed and medium to low altitude. It was one of the tightest-turning monoplane fighters of the war, although at lower speeds it could not out-turn the extremely maneuverable Japanese fighters such as the A6M Zero and Nakajima Ki-43 "Oscar"
Curtiss P-40E Warhawk Technicals
General characteristics-
Crew: 1
Length: 31 ft 8 in
Wingspan: 37 ft 3 in
Height: 12 ft 3 in
Wing area: 235.94 ft²)
Empty weight: 6,350 lb
Loaded weight: 8,280 lb
Max. takeoff weight: 8,810 lb
Powerplant: 1 × Allison V-1710-39 liquid-cooled V12 engine, 1,150 hp
Performance-
Maximum speed: 360 mph
Cruise speed: 270 mph
Range: 650 mi
Service ceiling: 29,000 ft
Rate of climb: 2,100 ft/min
Wing loading: 35.1 lb/ft²
Power/mass: 0.14 hp/lb
Armament-
Guns: 6 × .50 in M2 Browning machine guns with 150-200 rounds per gun
Bombs: 250 to 1,000 lb bombs to a total of 2,000 lb on three hardpoints (one under the fuselage and two underwing)
Survivors
Airworthy-
P-40C Warhawk, s/n AK295 owned by Lewis Vintage Collection LCC in San Antonio, TX.
P-40E Warhawk, s/n AK827 owned by Yanks Air Museum in Chino, CA.
P-40E Warhawk, s/n AK905 owned by Rudolf Fresca DBA in Champaign, IL.
P-40E Warhawk, s/n AK933 and owned by Kitty Hawk Museum LCC in Boise, ID.
P-40E Warhawk, s/n AK940 owned by Banta Aviation Corp. in Dover, DE.
P-40E Warhawk, s/n AK979 owned by Federal Express Corp in Memphis, TN.
P-40E Warhawk, s/n AL152 owned by the War Eagles Air Museum in Santa Teresa, NM.
P-40E Warhawk, s/n AL171 owned by Fantasy of Flight in Polk City, FL.
P-40E Warhawk, s/n 41-5709 owned by the Liberty Foundation Inc. in Miami, FL.
P-40C Warhawk, s/n 41-13390 owned by Flying Heritage Collection in Seattle, WA.
P-40E Warhawk, s/n 41-35918 owned by Training Services Inc. in Virginia Beach, VA.
P-40K Warhawk, s/n 42-9733 owned by Spitfire USA Ltd. in Easton, MD.
P-40K Warhawk, s/n 42-9749 owned by Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, OR.
P-40K Warhawk, s/n 42-10256 owned Aleutian Tiger LCC in Dover, DE.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n 42-105306 owned by Chris Prevost in Sonoma, CA.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n 42-105861 owned by Chuzy Suzy LCC in Lafayette, LA.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n 42-105867 owned by Commemorative Air Force in Fredericksburg, TX.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n 42-106396 owned by Warhawk LCC in Meridian, ID.
P-40M Warhawk, s/n 43-5795 owned by NA-50 Inc. in Dover, DE.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n 44-7084 owned by Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs, CA.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n 44-7192 owned by Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n 44-7368 owned by Leestown Aviation Warhawk Inc. in Wilmington, DE.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n 44-7369 owned by Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison, TX.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n 44-7619 owned by Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum in Kalamazoo, MI.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n 44-47923 owned by Fantasy of Flight in Polk City, FL.
On display-
P-40C Warhawk, s/n AK255 is at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in NAS Pensacola, FL.
P-40E Warhawk, s/n AK875 is at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA.
P-40E Warhawk, s/n AK987 is at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, OH.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n 42-105270 is at the Hill Aerospace Museum, Hill AFB, UT. This aircraft is actually a composite of a P-40E fiberglass relica and a wrecked P-40N recovered from Alaska. The dataplates were unreadable so the Hill Aerospace Museum chose the serial number of a scrapped P-40 that had been flown by the same squadron that the wrecked aircraft belonged to.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n 42-105927 is at Robins AFB, GA.
Under restoration-
P-40 Warhawk, s/n unknown by Kenneth A. Hake in Tipton, KS. It will be based on four crash hulks recovered from Russia.
P-40K Warhawk, s/n unknown by Kenneth A. Hake in Tipton, Kansas. It will be based on two crash hulks recovered from Aleutians, AK.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n unknown by Simpson Vintage Aircraft in Kissimmee, FL.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n unknown by C&G Air in Wilmington, DE.
P-40E Warhawk, s/n AK752 by James E. Smith in Fortine, MT.
P-40E Warhawk, s/n AK753 by N4420K LLC in Granite Falls, MN.
P-40E Warhawk, s/n AK863 by Ron J. Fagen in Granite Falls, MN.
P-40M Warhawk, s/n NZ3119 by the Tri-State Warbird Museum in Batavia, OH.
P-40E Warhawk, s/n 40-401 by Jason Hodge in Cool, CA.
P-40B Warhawk, s/n 41-13297 by Project Tomahawk in Torrance, CA.
P-40E Warhawk, s/n 41-13570 by CPSI in Jefferson City, MO.
P-40E Warhawk, s/n 41-35918 by Training Services Inc. in Suffolk, VA.
P-40K Warhawk, s/n 42-10083 by The Curtis Hawk Factory in Griffin, GA.
P-40K Warhawk, s/n 42-45946 by Dwight Jones in Anchorage, AK.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n 42-104959 by Legacy Aviation 9Partners LLC in Wilmington, DE.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n 42-105192 by Planes of Fame in Chino, CA.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n 42-105526 by Craig Schultz in Santa Rosa, CA.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n 42-106096 by Neil Bird in Jacksonville, FL.
P-40M Warhawk, s/n 43-5788 by Texas Air Museum in Rio Hondo, TX.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n 43-24363 by Hal Thompsen in Arcadia, FL.
P-40N Warhawk, s/n 44-7983 by Skyfire Corp. in Wilmington, DE.