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Re: P-39 42-20027
Posted by Dick Phillips on Sun Nov 03, 2002 10:00:55 PM
In reply top P-39 42-20027 posted by Scott WRG Editor on Sun Nov 03, 2002 01:45:21 PM
: Does anybody know the history of this aircraft? It's curre
: ntly suspended from the ceiling at the Virginia Air & Spac
: e Center.
:
: Scott
From DICK PHILLIPS
As Pat says in the following note, the P-39 is really
42-20007, not 20027.
It was recovered from PNG in 1974 for Dave Tallichets YESTERDAYS AIR FORCE. It was stored at his Chino facility until 1993, when it went to the Virginia Air & Space Center.