Rank 3 centres the North American P-51D Mustang — the bubble-canopy escort fighter that rewrote transcontinental air-war economics when Packard-built Merlin power met a laminar-flow wing designed in a hotel room. The 357th Fighter Group insignia on the plate honours the Yoxford Boys who flew Mustangs from Leiston to the Reich and back, protecting B-17 formations deep into Germany. With six .50-calibre Brownings, a dorsal fin for directional stability, and range extended by fuselage and wing tanks, the P-51D became the most recognizable Allied fighter silhouette of 1944–45. More than 8,000 D-model Mustangs rolled off the Inglewood and Dallas lines; split-view blueprint art renders the checker nose exterior and Merlin wireframe exactly as the master PNG dictates.