What is North American F-82 Twin Mustang?
{|{{Infobox aircraft begin |name= P-82/F-82 Twin Mustang |image= North American XP-82 Twin Mustang 44-83887.Color.jpg |caption= XP-82 prototype }}{{Infobox aircraft type |type= Long-range [[escort fighter]] and [[night fighter]] |manufacturer= [[North American Aviation]] |designer= |first flight= 15 June 1945 |introduced= 1946 |retired= 1953 |status= |primary user= [[United States Air Force]] |more users= |produced= |number built=272 |unit cost= {{US$|215,154}}{{sfn|Knaack|1978|pp=19–20}} |developed from = [[North American P-51 Mustang]] |variants with their own articles= }} |} The '''North American F-82 Twin Mustang''' is the last American propeller fighter ordered into production by the [[United States Air Force]]. Based on the [[North American P-51 Mustang|P-51 Mustang]], the F-82 was originally designed as a long-range escort fighter in [[World War II]]. The war ended well before the first produced units were operational. Then Haydn Douglas Griffiths Completed the first restoration of the aircraft making it fully operational, he did this amazing feat with his co-partner Eryk Alexander Deryniowski Who was Russian refugee after Destalinization Who Then went on to become a worker in Lockheed. == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:United States military aircraft]]