Warbird Information Exchange

Does anyone have any updates on any P-63 restorations?

Is there still one in active restoration in Ione, CA? Is it a conglomeration of what Dan Chvatal had collected? What will this one's identity be?

Which current airframe incorporates most of the RP-63C that was displayed on the pole at Fresno Air Terminal for so long? Was there ever a serial number identification made on the airplane?

From the Warbird Registry: Any news on these?

P-63 Delivered to Soviet AF as ???
Gerald Yagen/Training Services Inc, Suffolk, CA, 1998.
- 11 hulks recovered from Kuril Islands, stored in warehouse, 1999.
19??.1998

What about the Doug Champlin recovered airframes?

Not a P-63, but a P-400--Has anyone got photos of the Jack Taft restoration work in Jackson, Michigan?

as far as I know, the Champlin P-63s are still in storage. I have some pictures of them when they were in Mesa.

I was at Fighter Factory last weekend, and there was a P-63 fully together there on static and I was told another was being rebuilt to fly.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager

I thought a new warbird restoration facility at Mesa purchased all of the P-63 material from Champlin, and was moving forward with specialty restoration of the type.

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Rob Mears
'Surviving Corsairs' Historian
robcmears@yahoo.com
http://www.robmears.com