Lucky no. 46
North American P-51C-1-NA NX-1204, racing number 46 flown by Stanley Reaver in the 1949 Bendix Transcontinental Race with an average speed of 450.2 mph…and finished 2nd. Paul Mantz had flown the same plane in the 1948 Bendix and won first place in just over 7 hours from coast to coast. NX-1204 was donated to the International Flight and Space Museum in Santa Ana, California and now is in the Fantasy of Flights collection, still in flying conditon, but in WWII livery.