AK571 was the first Kittyhawk I. Although this variant was equivalent to the P-40D, only twenty were built
with the four-gun wing... the rest were completed with six guns, making them virtually identical to the P-40E.


Project 914 Archives (S.Donacik collection) - Larger Image


Project 914 Archives - Larger Image

A closer look at the four-gun wing...


Project 914 Archives


Project 914 Archives - Larger Image


Project 914 Archives - Larger Image


Project 914 Archives - Larger Image

Beautiful photo of AK571 at the Buffalo Airport, May 1941. Curtiss pilot H. Lloyd Child
is about to enter the cockpit for a test hop... an O-52 Owl sits alone in the background.


National Air and Space Museum (Rudy Arnold photo) - Larger Image