The UK based Wings Museum is restoring a P-63C Kingcobra, the restoration is based around the substantial remains of 43-11137. Accordingly to Aaron Simmons, Wings Museum volunteer and Licenced Aircraft Technician, the aircraft maintains approximately 85% of its original structure.
The project was started in July 2010 and work is still very much ongoing. In early 2000 Doug Champlin the Hunt brothers embarked on a high risk deal to recover 6 x P-63 King Cobra air frames from the remote Kuril Islands.
After much negotiation & democracy and working with reliable contacts, where many others had failed in the past, the P-63 air frames finally entered the UK around about 2001.The objective is to restore the aircraft to static condition for what it will become the only P-63 Kingcobra in the UK.
The current status of the P-63 cockpit. (Image courtesy of Aaron Simmons)
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