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    Airframe Family: Bell P-59
    Latest Model:YP-59A Airacomet
    Last Military Serial:42-108777 USAAF
    Compressed ID:Bell YP-59A sn 42-108777 USAAF
    Latest Owner or Location:Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino Airport, Chino, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a YP-59A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-108777.

    To Planes of Fame Air Museum/Ed Maloney, Ontario Airport, Ontario, CA.
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    To Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino Airport, Chino, CA.
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    Photographer: allan clegg
    Notes: Taken at Planes of Fame in Chino, California. Aircraft is now being restored to fight.

    1986


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Chino Planes of Fame museum.

    1986


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn

    22 September 1989


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Planes of Fame, Chino Airport, CA.

    4 December 1997


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Planes of Fame in Chino, California.

    14 May 2011


    Photographer: Todd Royer
    Notes: Chino Planes of Fame Airshow 2011

    23 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Exhibited at Planes of Fame Museum, Chino, California

    23 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Being restored at Planes of Fame Museum, Chino, California
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Mike Henniger
    Noah Rechtin
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