for easier moving around at the factory in Inglewood, these wooden wheels were briefly affixed to an RAF Mustang Mk IA.

roger D Oktober 02, 2018

P-51 gets wooden wheels attached, so it may be moved around the ramp at the Inglewood, California plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. When it is ready for flight tests, regular landing wheels with rubber tires will be substituted.

http://photogrammar.yale.edu/records/index.php?record=oem2002006283/PP
http://photogrammar.yale.edu/records/index.php?record=oem2002005889/PP

6658(6)

10/00/1942

Wooden wheels are attached to a P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane so it may be moved around the ramp at the Inglewood, Calif., plant of North American Aviation, Inc.

http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu:8000/BROWSE.cgi?db=2&pos=450&inc=50

Thanks Allen!