{"id":242242,"date":"2025-06-26T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-many-p-51s-were-in-service-usaf\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T08:00:15","slug":"how-many-p-51-mustangs-were-in-service-with-the-us-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=242242","title":{"rendered":"How Many P-51 Mustangs Were In Service With The US Air Force?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2014546\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/p-51-mustang-success-explanation\/\" >North American Aviation P-51 Mustang was a key fighter<\/a><\/span> of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the Second World War. By the time<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"54975\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/wwii\/\"  >WWII<\/a><\/span> came to an end, the USAAF (now the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span>) claimed to have destroyed some 4,950 enemy aircraft in the air. That is a higher number than claimed for any other USAAF fighter in the European theater. So, how many Mustangs did the USSAF\/USAF have in service?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army Air Forces operated around 13,000 P-51s in WWII, while the Air Force operated over 1,000 in the Korean War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,408,1954,423,1328,1885],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-history","category-north-american-p-51-mustang","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force","category-wwii"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242243,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242242\/revisions\/242243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}