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Gordon H. Root, a Mustang Pilot Not To Be Forgotten: Honoring a Rochester, NY P-51 Mustang Pilot Lost Too Soon

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 7, 2025

Root was tasked with ferrying a P-51B-5-NA Mustang, serial number 43-6529, from Niagara Falls, New York to Newark, New Jersey, where it would be shipped to the European theater. Papers were seen flying from the cockpit—among them, his wallet, later recovered near the crash site. Root, trapped in the cockpit, could not be saved.

Pilot

Pilot Horizontal Stabilizer Ferry Flight Cockpit

Unusual Queens: Top 10 coolest special mission Boeing 747s

Aerotime

JANUARY 15, 2025

The upper deck houses the communications center and cockpit, while the 4,000 square feet of floor space on the main deck is configured for presidential duties. It flew 70 of the 87 ferry missions, including 46 of the 54 post-mission ferry flights from Dryden to the Kennedy Space Center. But in 1989, the SCA got a sister.

Cargo

Cargo Ferry Flight Tail Horizontal Stabilizer

Aviator Connection

Gordon H. Root, a Mustang Pilot Not To Be Forgotten: Honoring a Rochester, NY P-51 Mustang Pilot Lost Too Soon

Unusual Queens: Top 10 coolest special mission Boeing 747s

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