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Col Pay's Kittyhawk VH-KTH has been sold in the USA, meaning that Australia is currently without an airworthy example of the numerically most important RAAF fighter of WWII. In its place, however, Col will restore New Zealand P-40E Kittyhawk NZ3094, which he obtained in a swap for his Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa, which has gone to the Alpine Fighter Museum in Wanaka. (Andrew Eyre)
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Trojans In Australia And New Zealand
Of all the piston engined warbirds that have caught the imagination of pilots, owners and observers in the last few years the North American T-28 series Trojan must surely rate as the highest interest aircraft. This comes no doubt due to a combination of its role in the SE Asian conflict of the sixties and seventies plus the very fact that so many of the type have been imported into Australia and New Zealand. Of these aircraft some 11 Trojans are flying giving it the largest number of any real warbird around. Although the machine has almost as much horsepower as a Mustang the very fact that the Trojan has a nose wheel and dual controls has made it so much easier for relatively low time pilots to be able to be checked out in the type thus encouraging ownership of the aircraft.
Of all the Trojans that have been involved with Australia not all have remained here. Two never quite got here and two others have gone on to homes in the United States. Below is presented for the first time a listing of all the Trojans involved with Australia and New Zealand. 
Of these aircraft a number of explanations are required. 3407/49-1496 and 3412/54-137799 apparently went direct from Asia to America. 3411/54-137773 and 54-137697 came to Australia and were then shipped to the USA. For VH-XVT the CAA quotes the serial as having been 50-273 and not 50-0283. Two aircraft came from the Philippines. These are 49-1561 and 51-3722. Both have still to be restored.
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