Little mistake on the french page…
Gerard ! Also on “Rusland” page I have noticed, that Russian “Marine vlag” is shown with black diagonal cross. This is wrong.
Our Russian naval flag of St. Andrew (the Patron of all saylors) is white with BLUE diagonal cross. The colour of cross could vary from light blue through blue to dark blue; but it is BLUE anyway.
The best sample is below – here is usual blue colour, without any colour variations:
Please, make the corrections on Your site.
P-63s mentioned are the wrecks on the Kurils
2012 photo of some (but not the same, shown in first posts in this thread) “Kingcobra” on the Kurils:
Most probably, at Present days this wreck is recovered and evacuated to Russia mainland for some restoration projects.
About the “Kingcobra”, depicted in earlier posts, Russian proficients state, this particular aircraft never was in Khodynka exposition, but more than 5 years it was in hands of one private restorer – in same condition; most probably, this plane was purchased and delivered from this man.
Speaking generally about P63s in Russia, after War some of them were scrapped, but remaining served about 10 years in aviation units. After this period they were used as instructional airframes in aviation schools (few examples), most part scrapped, and remaining were used, for example, on Army’s or Air Force’s firing ranges as targets (like those Kurils “Kingcobras”).
In last 20 – 30 years it was found, we have many their wrecks (there were and P39‘s wrecks). Many of them were sold abroad; the rest were restored (or are under restoration now). Several restored P63s/P39s are placed in Russian museums and collections – and sometimes even as “street monument” !:
And some remains even possibly to purchase – for example, in 2011 – 2012 this P63C5 fuselage wreck was offered for sale:
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