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RP-63C/43-11117



Serial #: 43-11117
Construction #: -
Civil Registration:
  N91448
Model: RP-63C
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2002
  History:
USAFM/Yesterdays Air Force, Chino, CA, 1976-1979.
USAFM/Bradley Air Museum/New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks, CT, Nov. 1979-1989.
- Restoration project, Mooresville, NC, 1982-1988.
- Majority of airframe sold to Yankee Air Corps, Chino, CA.
- Majority of airframe 43-11117 returned to USAFM, plus components from two additional wrecks for use in static restoration of composite airframe, Malmstrom AFB, MT, 1989-1992.
Charles F. Nichols/Yankee Air Corps, Chino, CA, 1985-1992.
- Restoration to airworthy.
- Using parts and assuming ID of 44-4181/N9009.
Charles Nichols/Yanks Air Museum, chino, CA, 1992-1994.
- Registered as N9009.
Kermit Weeks/Fantasy Of Flight Museum, Polk City, FL, Mar. 24, 1994-2002.
- Registered as N91448.
- Restored to airworthy.
- Flown in Soviet AF 004/Code 100.

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):
Tony Andrews.