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P-63 Folks:

While looking for the whereabouts of the 13 Bell P-63Es, we found this P-63A, in a park in S. Carolina. Prob off I-95. Photo D. Chvatal via E. Furler.C. 1978. No S/N kown.

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Isn't this now Bob Pond's? It was in a park in the south for a long time.

John

Cool..that bird still had it's cannon and engine installed...pretty unusual for
any park display machine. There's a restoration or two which would love
to have some of those big bits, as well as many little bits which could
be provided by such a complete example.

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Anyone know the story of how hard it was for the Whittingtons to get this Cobra from that town? Elliot White Springs Park apparently was in the town of Lancaster, South Carolina (not BC as the Registry lists it) from at least 1950 but what year did Don and company get it?

What about those markings on 42-68842? Were they in any way original? What was the pre-1950 history on this machine?