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Serial #: 42-19597 Construction #: ? Civil Registration: N6968 |
Model(s): P-39Q Airacobra Name: Miss Connie Status: Airworthy Last info: 2003 |
Delivered to USAAF as 42-19597, 19??.
- Forced landing, Hobbs, NM, Circa 1946.
- Abandoned in place by USAF.
Captain High School, Lincoln, NM, 19??.
- Displayed.
Chet Kochan, Apr. 1956.
- Recovered derelict hulk from Lincoln, NM.
Joe Brown, Hobbs, NM, Circa 1967.
- Stored, dismantled, derelict.
Don Hull, Sugarland, TX, 1968-1974.
- Registered as N6968.
- Restored to airworthy, 1968-1974.
- First flight Oct. 21, 1974.
- Flown in Soviet AF scheme.
- Damaged in belly landing on first flight, repaired.
Confederate Air Force, Harlingen, TX, Dec. 3, 1974-1991.
CAF/Commemorative Air Force, Midland, TX, Sep. 1991-2003.
- Assigned to Central Texas Wing.
- Damaged after after nose wheel collapsed while taxying (repaired), 1994.
- WFU, 1997.
- Displayed at Flight Test Barn, Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX, 1999-2000.
- Rebuilt to airworthy, San Marcos, TX, 2000-2001.
- First flight June 9, 2001.
- Flew in Soviet AF scheme (later in US scheme).
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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. Photo Source(s): Chuck Gardner - Warbirds Resource Group, www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org, 2003 Pat Carry. Unknown. Mike Henniger. |
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