Without fanfare, the Commemorative
Air Force’s Bell P-63F Kingcobra took to the skies again on April 14th, near Houston, Texas. The Kingcobra had been ground-bound since an October, 2013 belly-landing at Skywest Airport near Midland, Texas.
As forced landings go, the aircraft
had not suffered too much structural damage in the incident, but the engine,
propeller and reduction gear box needed a good deal of expensive rework, for
obvious reasons. P-63F 43-11719 is maintained by the P-63 Sponsor Group and one of
only two of the variant ever built.
She is also just one of three currently active Kingcobras in the world (the others being the Palm Springs Air Museum’s P-63A 42-68864 “Pretty Polly” and the Legacy of Flight Museum‘s P-63C 43-11223).
http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/caf-p-63f-king-cobra-flies.html
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