The museum’s P-40E was built in 1941 and sent to the UK under Lend-Lease. It was passed along to the Soviets in April, 1942, and lost in action while protecting Murmansk. It stayed on the tundra where it had landed for almost 50 years and was recovered in 1992. The Museum's founder acquired it in 1996, and it finally flew again in 2003.
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Curtiss P-40E
Warhawk
The P-40E saw widespread use with the air arms of Britain (which dubbed it the Kittyhawk), Australia, Canada, France, the Soviet Union and the United States.