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    Airframe Family: Bell 12/13/15/23/26/24/33/43 / P-39 Airacobra / P-63 Kingcobra
    Latest Model:P-63A-1-BE Kingcobra
    Last Military Serial:42-68895 USAAF
    Compressed ID:Bell P-63A-1-BE sn 42-68895 USAAF
    Latest Owner or Location:Walter Soplata Aviation Collection, Newbury, Cleveland, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P-63A-1-BE.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-68895.

    Possibly stored somplace in Buffalo, NY.

    By 1975

    To Walter Soplata Aviation Collection, Newbury, Cleveland, OH.
    Survives here as a fuselage only stored inside the B-36 hulk.
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    1 September 1977


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: P-63 on left

    1984


    Photographer: Steve Tournay

    1987

    Last spotted.
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     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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