| The Galloping Ghost | |
|---|---|
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Galloping_Ghost.jpg) The Galloping Ghost in 2010 | |
| General information | |
| Type | North American P-51D-15-NA Mustang |
| Manufacturer | North American Aviation |
| Registration | N79111 |
| Serial | 44-15651 |
| History | |
| Fate | Crashed September 2011 |
The Galloping Ghost was a P-51D Mustang air racer that held various airspeed records and whose fatal crash in 2011 led to several NTSB recommendations to make air shows safer.[1]
Built in 1944 by North American Aviation for the Army Air Force, the plane was sold as postwar surplus. Over the next half-century, it was modified and raced by a series of owners, including, finally, Aero Trans Corp. in Ocala, Florida.[2] It was destroyed on September 16, 2011, when it crashed into spectators at the Reno Air Races, at the Reno Stead Airport north of Reno, Nevada.
- ^ "Aviation accident at the Reno Air Race". www.ntsb.gov. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
- ^ "P-51D Mustang/44-15651" Archived January 8, 2015, at the Wayback Machine FAA Registry Retrieved May 26, 2011.