Originally Posted by
treadigraph
I was there when Miss Ashley II broke up rounding turn one or two, the main wreckage ended up in some one's back yard. Might even have been some slight third party injuries.
Reference Confederate/Commemorative Air Force, a fair few airframes have been destroyed in their hands over years. Marauder, Havoc, CASA 2111 for starters. I know a lot of bent Reno Racers have been seriously rebuilt but the actual toll of historic unlimited airframes utterly destroyed is probably half a dozen or so. Galloping Ghost, Red Baron immediately spring to mind. N51U I think was fatal but rebuilt. Miss Ashley II was largely a new airframe built around a few P-51 bits and Learjet wings and tail. Several others lost elsewhere, Mojave and San Diego. What have I missed?
Edit: N51U never was rebuilt; two other losses were the R4360 modified Super Corsair at Phoenix and a Bearcat at San Diego, both engine fires.
Technically Red Baron survives, it was 'rebuilt' and now flies from Chino as 'Wee Willy II' owned by Steve Hinton. It's actually a bitsa from an Indonesian fuselage, but we're into Trigger's Broom territory!