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Stunning P-51B Mustang "Berlin Express" comes in to land at Duxford back in July 2017. Her distinctive 357th Fighter Group markings and invasion stripes really standing out against the sky.

"Berlin Express" was flown across from the US in 2017 by Lee Lauderback and has remained in Europe since. She spent July 2019-July 2020 stored in Switzerland before returning to Duxford - visitors to Duxford being very pleased to see her again last year!

Although in the markings of "Berlin Express", this particular Mustang served with the 9th Air Force’s 363rd Fighter Group based at RAF Staplehurst in Kent, England, but was lost in a training exercise in June 1944 in Beckley after the pilot was forced to bail out.

Her parts were eventually recovered and formed the basis of this project and she was resurrected by Pacific Fighters, flying again in 2014 in the markings of 43-24823 "Berlin Express". In 2017 she was sold to Comanche Fighters and undertook an epic flight from Texas to Duxford.