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Serial #: 42-68941 Construction #: 33-11 Civil Registration: NX75488 N75488 N191H Model: P-63A-6-BE Name: None Status: Restoration Last info: 2002  Additional Images. Restorer/Contact: Confederate Air Force Dixie Wing Falcon Field Peachtree City, GA (20 mi S. of Atlanta) E-mail: bryce_roth@yahoo.com Web Site: www.dixiewing.org |
History: Delivered to USAAF as 42-68941. - BOC: Feb. 24, 1944. - Retained at Bell as a test aircraft. - Transferred to Moffet Field, NACA Ames, CA for use as test aircraft, Jan. 27, 1945. - Turned over to War Assets Administration for disposal as surplus, Atlus, OK, July 1, 1946. Steven H. Christenson, Houston, TX, 1947-1964. - Registered as NX75488. - Open storage, Dallas-Love Field, TX, circa 1950-circa 1965. New Mexico Asphault & Refinning Co, 1955. - Registered as N75488. Olin C. Crabtree/CAF, Mercedes, TX, 1966-1972. - Registered as N191H. - Flew as CAF Tumbleweed. M. D. Johnson, Rolling Fork/Grenada, MS, 1973-1991. Confederate Air Force/Dixie Wing, Falcon Field, Peachtree City, GA, Sept. 1991-2002. - Underestoration to airworthiness. |
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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): Unknown. Chuck Gardner |
