VERSION 2 features slight adjustments to tone and hue of some of the colors in order to achieve greater accuracy (namely the yellow-orange varnish). 

This is a repaint for the Curtiss JN-4D Jenny included in the freeware 40th Anniversary Edition addon. This repaint depicts the award-winning airworthy original Curtiss JN-4D Jenny s/n 2975, registered as N2975, restored by Ken Hyde of Warrenton, Virginia, and owned and operated by Fagen Fighters WWII Museum located in Granite Falls, Minnesota.

This repaint features many external and internal details specifically made to match the real world aircraft, including stenciling, wood, metal and fabric finishes, correct colors across all parts, and some new & adjusted cockpit textures.

This aircraft was originally built at the Curtiss factory in Buffalo, New York with construction number 450, and delivered to the U.S. Army Signal Corps at Taylor Field, located near Montgomery, Alabama, in March 1918. With the Signal Corps, it was assigned serial number 2975. It served as a trainer at Taylor Field until May 1919, when it was sold back to the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corp., minus engine. At the time, it had only 184 flight hours on the clock. Its first civilian owner was a Mr. Garrison, who flew it in the early 1920s until it was wrecked in a crash. The aircraft would however remain in storage with the Garrison family for decades until when it was ultimately acquired by Cole Palen, founder of the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome. In 1972, Ken Hyde of Warrenton, Virginia was able to acquire the unrestored airframe by trading some LeRhone rotary engines to Palen. As a backburner project while working on many other antique and classic aircraft restorations, Ken Hyde spent 16 years restoring the Jenny in exacting detail to as it would have looked when delivered new to the Signal Corps in 1918. This included reusing 75-80% of the original wood, restoring and fitting an original Curtiss-Hammondsport OX-5 engine, and finding all of the original hardware. Among the many rare original items incorporated in the restoration is an aileron pulley which came from Charles Lindbergh's Curtiss Jenny. As per original, the restored aircraft is covered in linen and finished with four coats of clear dope and two coats of varnish. The varnish, which is what gives the fabric its amber color and serves the purpose of waterproofing, was made to original U.S. Army Signal Corps specifications consisting of orange shellac mixed with alcohol. Also, as per original, all metal panels were painted an early version of olive drab, sometimes referred to as "Olive 22". Following completion, in 1987 Ken Hyde flew the Jenny on an epic 780-mile cross-country flight from Virginia to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where it won that year's Antique Grand Champion award at the annual EAA convention. Following Oshkosh '87, Ken Hyde hoped to be able to track down through research which specific squadron the aircraft actually served with at Taylor Field, since there were four squadrons in all, in order to apply the aircraft's actual original fuselage markings. However, this goal seems to have never been able to be reached as the fuselage has remained void of markings. In the 2000s, the Jenny was loaned to the Virginia Aviation Museum in Richmond, Virginia, where it was displayed static. In 2014, it was purchased by Fagen Fighters WWII Museum and, following some subsequent restoration, the aircraft was moved to its new home in Granite Falls, Minnesota, where it has since flown and remains airworthy today.