FLIGHT TEST KING

Instead of giving its P-63A Kingcobra a spurious front-line scheme, the Commemorative Air Force’s Dixie Wing decided to complete the newly restored airframe in an original guise: as a testbed for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the predecessor of today’s NASA NACA P-63 The CAF Dixie Wing’s P-63A Kingcobra, 42‑68941/N191H, flying over the lush Wisconsin forests near Oshkosh this July. Despite the fact that the Bell P-63 Kingcobra never fought on the front line with US forces, it