seafury

Currently airworthy as 'Miss Merced'. Color photo by Lee Mullins.

www.aeroaces.com/unlimiteds.htm "Mike Carroll was the first to modify a Sea Fury for unlimited class air racing. His striking all-yellow racer with it's flame paint job was always a crowd favorite. In 1966 it took third in its first ever cross-country race, followed by a second place in the 1966 Reno Silver race. In 1967, it got a second in the Palm Springs-Cleveland race, followed by a first in the Illinois to Reno race. Mike Carroll died while testing his P-39 racer "Cobra III", and the Sea Fury was sold to Dr. Sherman Cooper, who renamed it "Miss Merced". The big yellow racer won the 1970 Reno Silver race, AND the 1970 California 1000 mile endurance race at Mojave. This was followed by winning the United States Cup 1000 mile endurance race in San Diego, and an amazing 3rd place in the Gold Cup race at Reno in 1971."

"This Hawker Sea Fury T Mk.20 was delivered in 1957 as VZ368 and transferred to the Burmese Air Force as UB-451. Frank Sanders obtained the fairly complete airframe from Burma and had the aircraft stored in its wooden shipping crate at the family's Chino, California, hangar during 1979........" read more at www.sandersaircraft.com/aircraft_dreadnought.asp