Greetings Folks, Flying Legends 2015, and this was the first U.K. public display for the The Fighter Collections new (old) Curtiss P-36C.. She is the silver aircraft here, known history is as follows..; This is last Curtiss P-36C constructed Serial No. 38-210. Built in 1939 and delivered to Selfridge Field, Michigan in May 1939. She participated in the 1939 Cleveland Air Races in September 1939 with experimental camouflage. She participated in the War Games at Maxwell Field following the Air Races. She was sent to Wright Patterson for testing in 1940 and then on to serve with several different squadrons on the U.S. East Coast. In 1942 she was sent to Chanute Technical Training Command for a few months, thereafter she was labelled obsolete and flown to Buckley field in Colorado. She was put into a Tech School following her decommission and was later acquired by a Pratt & Whitney Tech instructor from Canada, where she resided until a Florida collector acquired it and passed her on to The Fighter Collection more than a decade ago. The restoration commenced some four years ago, under the leadership of Matt Nightingale at Chino, California when sufficient original parts capable of overhaul were recovered to ensure that the aircraft could be completed to fly. Steve Hinton carried out the shakedown flights and the FAA certified P-36C made it first public appearances at the 2015 Planes of Fame Airshow, in unique flights with the Museum’s Sikorsky P-35 in similar markings. She is seen is close formation with the export version the Curtiss Hawk 75, this is the last airworthy example of this aircraft and is one of the 100 in the first production batch sent to the French Air Force, and given the individual aircraft number 82, arriving in April 1939. Issued to 1ére Escadrille, Groupe de Combat 11/5 Lafayette at Reims, where she carried the command stripes on the fuselage of the personal aircraft of Commandant Murtin, CO of both GC 1/5 and GC 11/5. She moved to Toul during the Battle of France, and then on to Oran in Algeria before the Armistice. From 1940 to 1942 Hawk No.82’s Squadron was engaged in sporadic skirmishes with RAF and USN aircraft over Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. Between 1946 and 1949 Hawk No.82 was with the 4th Training Squadron at Cazaux in Western France serving as an advanced trainer with 22 other H-75s. Hawk No.82 was saved from scrapping in the 1950’s and was placed in storage in France until acquired by TFC in 1995. Following a major overhaul in the US she made her UK debut in 2005. Our Hawk wears an authentic Armée de l’Air standard three-tone scheme, with her GC 11/5 markings on her port, and the Lafeyette Escadrille Sioux Indian head motif (the TFC logo) on her starboard side. The Hawk was in fact the highest scoring French fighter in the Battle Of France.. This was not all of the formation and there was another newcomer! Using that Smith Micro prog! Enjoy Rob