Trio builds ‘Red Tail’ for display

Hudson's Bay: Joshua Staley, left, airframe and power plant mechanic, Jason Brown, junior volunteer, and Carter Strader, Academy of Model Aeronautics member built a Red Tail model that will be part of the Tuskegee Airmen display at the Pearson Air Museum.

Hudson's Bay: Joshua Staley, left, airframe and power plant mechanic, Jason Brown, junior volunteer, and Carter Strader, Academy of Model Aeronautics member built a Red Tail model that will be part of the Tuskegee Airmen display at the Pearson Air Museum.

Hudson’s Bay — Volunteers at the Pearson Air Museum built a model of a “Red Tail” P-51 Mustang to be part of the new Tuskegee Airmen display at the museum. Joshua Staley, airframe and power plant mechanic, Jason Brown, junior volunteer, and Carter Strader, Academy of Model Aeronautics member and graduate from the museum’s summer camp program, put together the model.

It took about 14 hours to build the model, which was finished on Jan. 16.

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