Thank you Jan Kees, and thank you Richard! As I wrote in the description for the repaint, there is a bit of controversy regarding the aircraft. It is in-fact not the original wartime "Tall-In-The-Saddle", although the owner presented it that way when it was painted several years back. The way the story unfolded was that for many years Peter Teichman thought that the aircraft may have flown with the Tuskegee Airmen. There were two reasons for this - one, it was known based on the partial records that Teichman and his guys had that it was sent to the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations in early 1945, and then was sent back to the US in October 1945. And the second piece of potential evidence they had was that they found red paint around the inside of the unrestored tail (not taking into consideration that the aircraft also had a long post-war military career and numerous civilian owners/paint schemes). They could never prove that it was assigned to the 332nd FG, but it seems the owner, Peter Teichman, really badly wanted it to be. So, when it came time to repaint the aircraft in 2015/2016, he found Lt. Col. George Hardy, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, still alive and living in the US, and decided to paint the aircraft in the markings of the Mustang that Hardy flew (March-May, 1945). Unfortunately, both Teichman and a UK photographer/writer wrote about it having been discovered to be the original "Tall-In-The-Saddle", which was never true, with never any actual proof of the matter. Ultimately, a historian by the name of Jack Cook, in 2018, found wartime 15th Air Force records which documented that Peter Teichman's Mustang had actually been assigned to the 31st Fighter Group. That unit also used red on the tails, but with stripes (referred to as candy canes). One of the things I failed to mention in the description is that it is one of the very last P-51s still flying which has never been taken completely apart for restoration.
At the last Shuttleworth Airshow, I heard that Peter Teichman was telling folks that it was the last airshow he would be flying at, and he was planning on selling off his warbirds, it having been now 20 years since he originally started the Hangar 11 Collection.
