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P-63 KINGCOBRA/42-68941



   
Serial #: 42-68941
Construction #: 33-11
Civil Registration:
  NX75488
  N75488
  N191H
  Model(s):
  P-63A-6-BE Kingcobra
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2015

History:
Delivered to USAAF as 42-68941.
- BOC: Feb. 24, 1944.
- Retained at Bell as a test aircraft.
- Transferred to Moffet Field, NACA Ames, CA for use as test aircraft, Jan. 27, 1945.
- Turned over to War Assets Administration for disposal as surplus, Atlus, OK, July 1, 1946.
Steven H. Christenson, Houston, TX, 1947-1964.
- Registered as NX75488.
- Open storage, Dallas-Love Field, TX, circa 1950-circa 1965.
New Mexico Asphault & Refinning Co, 1955.
- Registered as N75488.
Olin C. Crabtree/CAF, Mercedes, TX, 1966-1972.
- Registered as N191H.
- Flew as CAF Tumbleweed.
M. D. Johnson, Rolling Fork/Grenada, MS, 1973-1991.
Confederate Air Force, Falcon Field, Peachtree City, GA, Sept. 1991-2015.
- Under restoration to airworthiness.

Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2013.
Photo Source(s):
Unknown.
Chuck Gardner

Research Assistance:
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