1,500 Kittyhawk Mk.IA aircraft were built and were basically the export equivalent of the P-40E and were sent to the RAF, RCAF, RAAF, and RNZAF.

However, the aircraft did have an impressive dive speed. The maximum speed for the P-40 was just 361 miles per hour, with a range of 716 miles, and a service ceiling of 29,100 feet.

Production of all variants of the P-40 totaled 16,802, including 13,738 that saw service with U.S. forces. Seventy-three P-40s were among the 152 U.S. Army aircraft destroyed at Pearl Harbor.

Captain W.J. Hennon, who has shot down at least five Japanese aircraft, is sitting in the cockpit of P-40 No. 36. Note the whitened former red circle of the US national insignia. (image via Wikipedia) ...

But even if P-40s were leaving Curtiss-Wright factories like snow during a lake effect event, the company still had room to formulate a plan to eventually replace the P-40 outright with something ...

The aircraft is painted in the colors of the 14th Air Force 23rd Fighter Group, which in 1942 absorbed the mission—and some of the pilots and airplanes—of the Flying Tigers.

Whether it was the Tomahawk, Warhawk, or Kittyhawk, the Curtiss P-40 was a successful and versatile fighter aircraft during the first half of World War II. The shark-mouthed Tomahawks that General ...

The aircraft is said to be largely intact. The aircraft is a Kittyhawk P-40 and is said to be nearly perfectly preserved and to have been unseen and untouched since it crashed in 1942.

Discover the historic P-40 Curtiss Warhawk at Niagara Aerospace Museum, as the iconic aircraft returns home to Buffalo, celebrating its rich World War II legacy.

While speculation surrounding the aircraft’s authenticity and identification continues, experts believe the P-40 was flown by 24-year-old RAF airman Dennis Copping, who disappeared while ...