Warbird Information Exchange

Here are some good pics of an A-26 on the Team Chevelle site...

http://www.chevelles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=153475

Does Doc Hisey have a P-63? (I didn't know that!)
The Chevelle site seemed to indicate such.
Thx,
VL

That looks like the A-26 that used to live in North Las Vegas (VGT) back in the late 80's early 90's. Does anyone know if that is the same airplane?
Scott.....

The A-26 Lady Liberty is the former Vegas Vixen, now moved to OK still belonging to the CAF.
Vlado, from what I understand the P-63 pictured is one owned by the CAF, that has been on display at a small museum that Doc Hisey has been putting together. I know in the past he has helped some caf projects out, so I wonder if this might be more of the same.

Something wrong with that P-63 photo. It looks just like a photo i remember of the one at the USAF Museum. I think it's been repainted now, but it was a "pinball" Cobra with no intake above the engine, just like the one in the photo.

Yep, heres the same photo
http://www.warbirdalley.com/p63.htm

That's just wierd. The guy on that Chevelle site went to the trouble of downloading that pic and saving it in his webshots album to make it appear, I would assume, to be his own.

Two more Kingcobra related questions. One, why is the ex-Frank Borman machine listed twice in the registry with two different serials? Second, the registry lists Kermit Week's bird as airworthy which I'm pretty sure is a mistake. Anyone know for sure?

Because the P-63 is also listed twice on the FAA registry. The serial # must have been changed by the owner for some reason at one stage. Will ask a friend who were with Square 1 at the time.

I also asked the same friend about Weeks P-63, and he told me Nichols sold that to Weeks around the same time the F8F left. Another guy who also worked at Square 1 had earlier been with Yanks, and when I asked about the so-called airworthiness of Nichols fighters, he said none of those restored in-house were flyable without a lot of extra work.

T J

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