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by Dick Phillips
Daly, Lindauer, Cowan, Scheil
by Dick Phillips
Daly, Lindauer, Cowan, Scheil
Reader's Responses:
David Daly
11/07/2001 21:16
This mustang is A68-187 and was converted to a RR Dart engine but never flew It is now owned by Frank Borrman and was modified back to standard and now resides in the US.
David Lindauer
11/11/2001 18:26
Ahhh... The famous "Dart-ang," the Rolls Royce Dart conversion of Commonwealth Mustang A68-187, converted at Bankstown Airport in Sydney. Later restored to Merlin power by Square One, this is now Frank Borman's N50FS "Su Su II", registered to Picacho Aviation LLC, Fairacres, NM, and formerly N19WJ and VH-UFO.
Brendan Cowan
11/11/2001 20:49
This is an Australian built CA-18 Mustang A68-187 registered quite appropriately as VH-OFU and is seen photographed at Canberra Airport. It was re-engined with a Rolls Royce Dart, had the belly scoop removed and a couple of CAC CA-27 Sabre Drop tanks fitted. It also eventually had other significant structural mods to the rear fuselage and tail feathers to offset the new powerplant. It never flew in this configuration. I have further info if required. It is now Frank Borman's Su Su II flying as N50FS.
Joseph Scheil
11/13/2001 23:18
The enigmatic VH-UFO... This was a CA-18 A68-187 and went through a number of owners, and display modes before ending up on a pole in 1967. Hockley Treloar brought her down from the pole in 69' and by 1973 had begun modifying her with a Viscount RR Dart, completing this around 76 or 77. The Mustang never flew with this engine and the aircraft was stored and shipped to the usa in 1995. Square One finished her rebuild into a TF-51D, and thus her strange story continues...
Case Closed!
