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P-39 AIRACOBRA/44-3887



Serial #: 44-3887
Construction #: ?
Civil Registration:
  None
  Model(s):
  P-39Q Airacobra
  RP-39Q
  TP-39Q
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2002

History:
Jack B. Hardwick/Hardwick Aircraft Co, El Monte, CA, 1947-1966.
- Trucked from airfield in IL to El Monte.
- Stored derelict in Hardwick's yard, El Monte, CA.
- Rebuilt to airworthy as single seat P-39Q.
- Flown to Wright Patterson AFB, July 1966.
USAFM, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH, July 1966-2002.
- Displayed as 43887/31 (later 17073/31).
- Painted as a P-39J flown by Lt. Leslie Spoonts of the 57th Fighter Squadron in 1942.

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, 2002

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