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Miss Ashley II

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P-51R Miss Ashley II
Miss Ashley II in July 1998
General information
Other name(s)	Race 38
Type	Racing aircraft
National origin	United States
Manufacturer	Rogers
Designer	Bill L. Rogers
Owners	Bill L. Rogers Gary Levitz
Number built	1
Construction number	87-1002
Registration	N57LR
Total hours	113
History
Manufactured	1996
Introduction date	1997
First flight	Spring 1997
Developed from	North American P-51 Mustang
Fate	Destroyed during the 1999 Reno Air Races

Miss Ashley II was a custom-built racing aircraft based on the North American P-51 Mustang.

Design and development

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Built by Bill L. Rogers in 1996, Miss Ashley II was a P-51R;^[1] a hybrid aircraft consisting of the fuselage of a P-51D fuselage and a P-51H vertical stabilizer, a Learjet 23 wing (without wingtip tanks) and horizontal stabilizer, and Piper Aerostar landing gear. Power was provided by a 2,455 hp Rolls-Royce Griffon 58 driving two 3-bladed contra-rotating propellers from an Avro Shackleton.^[2]^[3]^[4]

History

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Miss Ashley II made its first flight in the spring of 1997. The aircraft made its racing debut at the Reno Air Races later that year, piloted by Gary Levitz. The aircraft carried the race number 38, which was also used by Levitz's original P-51D Miss Ashley and Don Whittington's Griffon-powered P-51XR Mustang, Precious Metal.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

1999 Reno Air Races crash

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On September 18, 1999, Miss Ashley II participated in the Unlimited Gold class of the Reno Air Races with Levitz as the pilot.^[6] On the first lap of heat 3A, Miss Ashley II was in fifth place coming around pylon 1 when the aircraft's empennage control surfaces apparently separated from the aircraft. The nose of the aircraft pitched down and the left wing separated from the fuselage before the aircraft impacted the ground, killing Levitz and completely destroying the aircraft.^[2] The wreckage struck two houses and a travel trailer, though there were no ground casualties.^[5]

The National Transportation Safety Board investigated the accident. A spectator's video reviewed by the NTSB seemed to show that the rudder and vertical stabilizer had separated from the aircraft before the crash, as they were not visible in the video. However, a video technician noted that this may have been the result of "video smearing", as the video's frame rate may have been too low to accurately capture the rapidly-moving aircraft. Reconstruction of the empennage wreckage was also inconclusive. The final NTSB report determined that the probable cause of the accident was flutter causing the empennage and rudder to separate from the aircraft, though the cause of the flutter was not determined.^[2]

Miss Ashley II's registration, N57LR, was canceled on August 8, 2002.^[9]

References

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^ "Aircraft Data N57LR, 1996 North American P-51R C/N 87-1002". www.airport-data.com. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
^ ^a ^b ^c "National Transportation Safety Board Aviation Accident Final Report". National Transportation Safety Board. May 5, 2001.
^ "Levitz-Rogers "Miss Ashley II"". solatechnical.com. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
^ "N57LR - Aircraft Registration Information". aircraft-data.com. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
^ ^a ^b "In Memory Of Gary Levitz". aafo.com. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
^ ^a ^b "P-51 Mustang Survivors - MustangsMustangs.com". www.mustangsmustangs.com. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
^ "Warbird Registry - North American Aviation P-51 Mustang - A Warbirds Resource Group Site". www.warbirdregistry.org. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
^ "Warbird Registry - North American Aviation P-51 Mustang - A Warbirds Resource Group Site". warbirdregistry.org. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
^ "Aircraft Data N57LR, 1996 North American P-51R C/N 87-1002". www.airport-data.com. Retrieved 2021-06-11.

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