E asily one of the most famous warplanes in history, the P-51 Mustang was manufactured by North American Aviation (NAA).

The iconic North American P-51 Mustang turned the tide of the air campaign in World War II in the allies’ favor. According to ...

One of the best, most detailed and, in my mind, trustworthy accounts of flying the Mustang is Len Morgan’s masterpiece Famous Aircraft: the P-51 Mustang. He describes an aircraft that “simply ...

Hollis "Bud" Nowlin, at right, in his P-51 closed in on the Me 109 flown by Günther Schack, a decorated Luftwaffe pilot, and fired at the enemy aircraft. Then he waved to the pilot, leaving ...

Aviation junkies will be treated to 80 years of flight & military history when the presentation series Warbirds in Review ...

The P-51’s durability and firepower, with six .50 caliber machine guns, made it a formidable opponent. -Mustang pilots shot down nearly 5,000 enemy aircraft, with over 250 achieving ace status.

U.S.-based aircraft manufacturer North American Aviation originally designed and produced the P-51 Mustang for use by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) in World War II. A single-seat, single ...

That was the North American P-51 Mustang — perhaps the best fighter of the war and quite possibly one of the most important aircraft to ever exist. The United States didn't enter the war until ...

A vintage P-51 Mustang aircraft crashed in the Gulf of Mexico near Galveston, Texas, Wednesday, killing two people on the plane, authorities said. The World War II-era aircraft, owned by the Lone ...

The P-51 was considered high-tech for its time. But World War II aircraft and their pilots were essentially flying bullets, to be expended like so much ammunition in a massive war of attrition.