Known as the “Ghost P-40,” this Curtiss P-40 Warhawk became one of aviation history’s most haunting mysteries. Discovered in 1942 by Allied patrols deep in the Egyptian desert, it was remarkably ...

The aircraft, a Curtiss P-40N Warhawk (serial number 42-104977), has a rich combat history. Then-1st Lt. Joel Dixon Thorvaldson flew the fighter, named Punkins in honor of his wife, with the 8th ...

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 ...

It all begins with what once very long ago was a very ordinary Curtiss P-40 Warhawk pistoned engined fighter. Well, actually, it's more like the remains of two planes merged into one.

On July 24, 1945, days before the end of World War II, Army Air Corps Pilot Ernest Hickox, 24, died when the Curtiss P-40 fighter plane he was piloting - named the Bonnie Kaye after his wife and ...

Caption: The P-40 Warhawk fighter plane that Foster built is shown at an airfield in Indus, Alta. He says he never got to fly the real thing. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press) ...

Wayne Foster leans on the wing of his smaller-scale replica of a P-40 Warhawk fighter plane in Indus, Alta., on Thursday, July 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh ...

Retired fighter pilot Wayne (Butch) Foster is getting ready to say goodbye to an old friend. Foster, who spent 25 years in the Canadian Air Force is selling the P-40 Warhawk fighter plane that he ...

At 88, Foster is selling one of his planes: a smaller-scale replica of a P-40 Warhawk with the Royal Air Force's 1940 Desert colours of the 112 Squadron. The asking price is $45,000. "It's like losing ...