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Old 19th May 2015, 11:26
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DaveReidUK
 
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Originally Posted by cj241101
The pilot Mira Slovak flew this aircraft from Germany to the US in May 1968; for an interesting account of that flight see:- Fournier RF4D N1700 Mira Slovak, Twirty-Six Horsepower Over the Atlantic

The aircraft ended up in the Seattle Boeing Museum of Flight at Everett. Very recent reports (15th May) indicate it is now in the UK at Gloucestershire, officially registered N1700G.
Mira Slovak was nearly killed, and his Fournier destroyed, when he crashed at the end of his Germany-USA flight in 1968. The following year a newer RF-4D inherited the registration N1700 and that's the one that went to the Museum of Flight and was recently noted at Staverton.
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