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Hi,

We have 6 x King Cobra Wrecks here in the UK.

Was looking at a very old article in Flypast Magazine about Darryl Greenamyers crashed P-63 that passed to Donnie Anklin for rebuild.

Does anyone know what happened to this project?

Dan
Wings Museum

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Dan Hunt - UK

Have you read through this already?

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/p39-p63r ... 44181.html


Love to see pics of your P-63 remains.

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It was a good idea, it just didn't work.

Also appears remaining bits and identity of 44-4181 went to the P-63 now owned by Kermit Weeks.

http://warbirdregistry.org/p39-p63regis ... 11117.html

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It was a good idea, it just didn't work.

Thanks for the quick response, I hadn't seen that link and didn't know the ID of the aircraft mentioned in the article before now!

From the photo in the artical 44-4181 had a surviving canopy, we are restoring one of the 6 wrecks (starting with the dog house section) we have virtually nothing of the original canopy structure so it is going to be a real pig of a job trying to do this right without original parts to work from, I am in touch with the guys at the CAF Museum and they have been most helpful. We have the drawings on CD but the drawings showing the front armoured screen assembly are rather sketchy to say the least. This is going to be criticle to get right as the instrument panel bolts onto the lower part and also if the door over tubes are not correct then the doors aren't going close. As yet we have no doors so this further adds to the problem.

I will attach some pics of the main P-63 which is on display at the Wings Museum in England. The museum has started restoring the dog house section off another wreck which is in really bad shape but the cockpit or dog house section as I call it wasn't too bad. We are not touching the main wrecks as who knows maybe someday some crazy fool will want to restore them to fly

Anyway I will give up on 44-4181 offering any parts then, as one door closes another opens as some people say (well I hope so!)

Anyone know how to attach pics to my post?

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Dan Hunt - UK

Is Week's P-63 airworthy?

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Defending Stearmans on WIX since Jeff started badmouthing them back in 2005.

Not that I know of.

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It was a good idea, it just didn't work.