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Serial #: 44-3887 Construction #: ? Civil Registration: None Model(s): P-39Q RP-39Q TP-39Q Name: None Status: Displayed Last info: 2002 |
History: Jack B. Hardwick/Hardwick Aircraft Co, El Monte, CA, 1947-1966. - Trucked from airfield in IL to El Monte. - Stored derelict in Hardwick's yard, El Monte, CA. - Rebuilt to airworthy as single seat P-39Q. - Flown to Wright Patterson AFB, July 1966. USAFM, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH, July 1966-2002. - Displayed as 43887/31 (later 17073/31). - Painted as a P-39J flown by Lt. Leslie Spoonts of the 57th Fighter Squadron in 1942. |
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Source(s): Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989. Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003. Photo Source(s): Chuck Gardner - Warbirds Resource Group, www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org, 2002 |
