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The north american p-51 d was truly a fighter pilots dream. It is perhaps the best known fighter aircraft of all time. Designed in record time at the request of the british in 1940, the mustang possessed a deadly combination of speed, endurance, maneu-verability and firepower. By the end of the mustangs production run more than 15,000 p-51s had been built and the aircraft had seen service around the world as an escort fighter, fighter/ bomber, dive bomber, reconnaissance aircraft, and finally, a race plane.