So heavily modified that I did not recognise it as a Kaydet, Note the cowled engine and the single seat with an enclosed cockpit

A beauty, built in 1943

Ex 08-27173. With US Customs and Border Protection titles, as well as Department of Homeland Security badge above the windows.

South Florida Air Museum

Representing an aircraft from VA-23 USS Oriskany

An experimental VTOL aircraft, intended to take off and land as seen here. The identity of this aircraft is uncertain. Most say that it is the first prototype 138657, mysteriously painted as 138658. But reliable sources state that only parts (engine and props) of 138657 survived testing by Hiller Aircraft in the late 1950s. The second prototype 138658, left incomplete and without an engine when the design project was cancelled, went on display at NAS Los Alamitos and later at NOLF Imperial Beach until it disappeared in the early 1990s. Then in the mid 1990s the aircraft in this photo suddenly popped up in Florida. It seems likely then that this is in fact the real 138658 (with the props from 138657) and that it was painted correctly.

Highly polished and simply stunning