This beautiful specimen of aircraft is a homebuilt replica of a P-51 Mustang. It’s not a shiny metal-skinned plane, and it’s certainly much smaller, but it sure is sweet looking. The builder paid a lot of attention to detail!

As you see from the side, this tiny little one-seater is pretty compact, with clean lines and a nice gray and black paint job.

The biggest surprise: Inside the nose sits a three-cylinder engine from a Geo Metro! I’m pretty sure that fact makes this the only Geo-powered “Mustang” in existence.

Beautiful. This plane looks graceful even while tethered to the tarmac.

I didn’t have time to hang around for some aerial shots, but had just enough to time to work some angles and thank the owner. I also didn’t want to be too big an interruption to the EAA meeting.

Now if only there were some real machine gun controls in here… 🙂 It’s a tight fit but it looks like the canopy offers amazing visibility.

Nice tail. Again I just have to admire the craftsmanship. It’s no surprise; I run into plenty of North Dakotans who display remarkable ingenuity as inventors and artisans.

One last beauty shot before I said my goodbyes and hopped back in the truck. I had an appointment to make, so I was unable to spend more time looking at and photographing this work of airborne art.