[Lee Stewart]

Out of all the P-51 Mustang facts on this list, the most impressive is without a doubt the fact that the aircraft was so impactful that it was revived in 1967, more than 25 years after it first saw service.

By this time, the majority of those that had once been operated by the US Air Force had long since been distributed to civilian operators. However, in both 1967 and '72, the service worked to acquire some of the units it had gotten rid of, with their final destinations being South American and Asian air forces, as part of the Military Assistance Program (MAP).