caption: North American P-51C, ``Excalibur III''. Excalibur III first belonged to famed aviator A. <PERSON>, who added extra fuel tanks for long-distance racing to this standard P-51C fighter. With it <PERSON> won the 1946 and 1947 <PERSON> air race and set a transcontinental speed record in 1947 when the airplane was named Blaze of Noon.