Malcolm Hood Installations for P-51B/C

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Originally Posted by Graham Boak

FD473 is listed in Air Britain' serial book as having been the Malcolm Hood trials aircraft, but seeing no other service.
AG618 is recorded as having two spells with the AFDU, sandwiching 1483 (Bombing Gunnery Flt, but went on to serve as a combat aircraft. This suggests it did not have a non-standard canopy - or perhaps it was just retrofitted later?

Hard to say Graham but given that the AFDU report was dated 7 December 1942 it could have also been restored to factory configuration or left "as is".