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Re: P-63 Project listed with Courtesy

Fri Jan 11, 2013 1:23 pm

HawkerTempestMKII wrote:I believe this P-63 was a project sold by Courtesy several years ago and being rebuilt by Aerocrafters. Now it's being sold again. If I remember right it was listed for around 350k about 5 years ago. It wasn't in the CAF.



This is a different project. The one you mention came direct from Minnesota and eventually wound up in Arizona. This one came from a museum in Washington and then to the current owner who sent it to Aerocrafters. Nothing has been done on it for a few years. Some of the mods for the back seat can be seen in the rear fuselage but most of that evidence is long gone.

Re: P-63 Project listed with Courtesy

Fri Jan 11, 2013 3:20 pm

bombadier29 wrote:
HawkerTempestMKII wrote:I believe this P-63 was a project sold by Courtesy several years ago and being rebuilt by Aerocrafters. Now it's being sold again. If I remember right it was listed for around 350k about 5 years ago. It wasn't in the CAF.



This is a different project. The one you mention came direct from Minnesota and eventually wound up in Arizona. This one came from a museum in Washington and then to the current owner who sent it to Aerocrafters. Nothing has been done on it for a few years. Some of the mods for the back seat can be seen in the rear fuselage but most of that evidence is long gone.



So is this the ex-Brian Reynolds project?

Re: P-63 Project listed with Courtesy

Mon Jan 14, 2013 2:47 am

Speedy wrote:
So is this the ex-Brian Reynolds project?


I don't know the guys name but when I originally saw the pictures of the project it was in a hangar with a Sea Fury. This would have been around 1998.

Re: P-63 Project listed with Courtesy

Mon Jan 14, 2013 5:37 pm

Speedy wrote:
bombadier29 wrote:
HawkerTempestMKII wrote:I believe this P-63 was a project sold by Courtesy several years ago and being rebuilt by Aerocrafters. Now it's being sold again. If I remember right it was listed for around 350k about 5 years ago. It wasn't in the CAF.



This is a different project. The one you mention came direct from Minnesota and eventually wound up in Arizona. This one came from a museum in Washington and then to the current owner who sent it to Aerocrafters. Nothing has been done on it for a few years. Some of the mods for the back seat can be seen in the rear fuselage but most of that evidence is long gone.



So is this the ex-Brian Reynolds project?



Yes, it is the ex Brian Reynolds project. It was at Sanders Aeronautical with the Wally Fisk fire damaged airframes. The Reynolds airframe was going to be a pattern airframe for the burned airframes when Mr Reynolds sold the project to the current owner. The fire damaged airframes went to Arizona.
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