Retired NACA/NASA research pilot Bob Champine was reunited with NACA #127, the modified P-51D that he flew on aeronautical research missions at the Langley Research Center in the 1940s and 1950s during a NACA Retirees Reunion at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center on Sept. 15, 2000.
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Retired NACA/NASA research pilot Bob Champine was reunited with NACA #127, the modified P-51D that he flew on aeronautical research missions at the Langley Research Center in the 1940s and 1950s during a NACA Retirees Reunion at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center on Sept. 15, 2000. After the P-51 deteriorated while on outside display for decades in Pennsylvania, it was restored by Pacific Fighters of Idaho Falls, Idaho in the 1990s. It was flown by its current owner, Bill Allmon of Las Vegas, Nev., to NASA Dryden on Edwards Air Force Base for the occasion.September 15, 2000NASA photo / Tony Landis