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P-63A/42-68864





Serial #: 42-68864
Construction #: ?
Civil Registration:
  N163BP
Model(s):
  P-63A-1-BE
  RP-63A
Name: Pretty Polly
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2002
  History:
Elliot White Springs Park, Lancaster, BC, 1950-1960.
- Memorial Display.
Don Whittington, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 19??.
- Acquired hulk.
Confederate Air Force, Harlingen, TX, 1984-1988.
- Hulk stored dismantled, Mesa, AZ, & Harlingen, TX.
Robert J. Pond/Planes Of Fame East, Minneapolis-Flying Cloud, MN, 1988-1992.
- Restored to airworthy, Chino, CA, 1988-1992.
- First flight Oct. 2, 1992.
- Flew as 268864/Pretty Polly.
Robert J. Pond, Eden Prairie, MN, May 1992-1997.
- Registered as N163BP.
Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs, CA, Dec. 1997-2002.

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
Unknown.
Ernie Viskupic via JetPhotos.net