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According to Toura in the previous page this is definitely the first XP-51 (41-038)http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,14165.msg139694.html#msg139694The identification of these prototypes is not an easy thing, if only because they carry no markings. There was one NA-73X (definitely NOT this one) and two NA-73 prototypes (XP-51-NA) which were similar to the first batch of RAF Mustang I aircraft (also NA-73). (see two posts below)If I refer to this set of profiles from the German Flugzeug Profile #37 it could also be an A-36A-NA Invader (NA-97) or a P-51A Mustang (NA-99) but of course the absence of markings makes this unlikely.I have noticed one detail that could help differentiate between "1038" and "1039". In wartime pictures the latter's vertical stabilizer has the top hinge in metal finish. The "1038" could therefore be the one that appears in several photos with that same hinge painted blue like the vertical stripe of the flag. And so, from that point of view, the one in the picture could very well be it.
According to Toura in the previous page this is definitely the first XP-51 (41-038)
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,14165.msg139694.html#msg139694
The identification of these prototypes is not an easy thing, if only because they carry no markings. There was one NA-73X (definitely NOT this one) and two NA-73 prototypes (XP-51-NA) which were similar to the first batch of RAF Mustang I aircraft (also NA-73). (see two posts below)
If I refer to this set of profiles from the German Flugzeug Profile #37 it could also be an A-36A-NA Invader (NA-97) or a P-51A Mustang (NA-99) but of course the absence of markings makes this unlikely.
I have noticed one detail that could help differentiate between "1038" and "1039". In wartime pictures the latter's vertical stabilizer has the top hinge in metal finish. The "1038" could therefore be the one that appears in several photos with that same hinge painted blue like the vertical stripe of the flag. And so, from that point of view, the one in the picture could very well be it.
