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Baugher XP-51 039 (MSN 73-3107) assigned to Woodrum Field, Roanoke, VA. Assigned to NACA Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, Virginia Mar 9, 1943 to Jan 15, 1944. Surveyed for ALD test Jan 15, 1944.







 
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Baugher: P-51B-1-NA 43-12105 assigned to Langley Field, VA
Assigned to NACA Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, later as NACA Langley Research
Center, Langley Field, VA Aug 16, 1943 to Jan 4, 1951. Registered as NACA 105.used for full-scale wind tunnel drag tests at NACA Langley Sep 1943. Prop was removed and ducts
were blocked and all seams smoothed over. Salvaged at Langley Field, VA








 
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Original vs extended tail

Baugher P-51D-20-NA 44-63826 assigned to Dayton Army Air Field, Vandalia, OH. Assigned to NACA Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, VA Aug 14, 1945 to Apr 4, 1946. Assigned to Langley Field, VA











 
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Easy. The F-82's tail fillet was much more prominent than the P/F-51D or H and reached all the way forward to the antenna mast. The fillet on the 51's wasn't nearly as prominent/big and ended about a foot before the antenna mast. Plus, look at the photo again and you'll see the antenna wire and small portion of the port tail.
 
See what I mean? AND to pile on.....the fuselage access hatch and overall shape of the rear fuselage is a dead giveaway as well.

 
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I think that is the other airplane, parked next to it.
I did go back and look and this time, I noticed the shadows on the ground all show single fuselage aircraft, except for the one you mentioned.
This gives even more creedence that what we're really seeing are the two aircraft parked next to each other.
 

P-51D-5-NA #44-13691, which was nicknamed Passion Wagon pilot Arval Roberson





 
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