Taken into service with the USAAF in 1944 and converted to RP-39Q then TP-39Q. Sold as N4829N in 1956 and rebuilt following year as a single-seater for air racing. Reregistered N40A in 1955. To Confederate Air Force in 1975, painted in camouflage and to Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum in 1981. Sold in 2015 as NX4829N

Built as P-39Q 42-19597 and converted into a two-seat TP-39Q trainer for the USAAF during the war. It made an emergency landing in New Mexico in 1945 and was subsequently abandoned. Later acquired donated to the Confederate Air Force, who undertook a restoration that eventually returned it to airworthy, single-seat configuration by 1974. Two landing accidents, in 2005 and 2010, both in Texas. First post-rebuild flight in 2015, remaining in Soviet AF colours

The P-39 Airacobra was sent to the Soviet Union through the US Lend-Lease program in huge numbers, with roughly 5,000 aircraft delivered via a trans-Siberian air route or shipped in crates via Iran. The Soviets found it effective as a low-to-mid altitude fighter and ground-attack aircraft. Over 2,500 of them were flown from the US to Alaska, then across the Bering Strait to Siberia as part of the ALSIB route, a dangerous but fast delivery method. This one, which must have been recently restored at the time, still stands as a monument on that supply route

This is actually P-39Q 44-3887, converted to an RP-39Q two-seat operational training version with armament removed and redesignated TP-39Q in 1945. Disposed of as surplus in 1946, it was restored to single-seat P-39Q status in 1966 and flown to the UASFM. By 1977 it was marked as P-39D 41-7073 flown by the 57th FS, Adak Island, during the harsh conditions of the Aleutians Island campaign of autumn 1942. They attacked the Japanese forces which had invaded Attu and Kiska islands, the weather claiming more casualties than combat

Raced by Charles Bing in 1946. Sold to Betty Hass who raced it as Galloping Gertie. Now part of the Smithsonian Collection. Photo by: Herbert J Nash / Smithsonian Institution

P-39 42-19597 was converted to a TP-39Q two-seat trainer during World War II. The aircraft was abandoned after emergency landing July 20, 1945 at Hobbs, New Mexico . Eventually used by Capitan High School, Lincoln, New Mexico, it was acquired by Joe Brown of Hobbs, New Mexico and donated to Confederate Air Force in the 60s. Registered N6968, it was restored to airworthy in single-seat configuration 1968-1974. Flown regularly in USSR markings at airshows, the fighter is still with the renamed Commemorative Air Force at the time of uploading.

In the autumn of 1945, this P-39 was found complete (and presumably still crated) on a stray railway wagon near Radom. It was still it its USAAF markings so, presumably, a lend lease airframe that had been transported to the front, but as the war had progressed the plane had become surplus to requirements. The Airacobra was puchased by the Wawelberg & Rotwand Technical School in Warsaw and used for instructional teaching. It then passed to the Mechanical Faculty of the Warsaw University of Technology, however, in all the intervening years the fuselage, the serial and other parts have become lost.

ex USAAF 42-19597

The caption says this photo was taken at Touconnerie but I cannot find that place? I have assumed the model and the photo date (it was taken in WW2) by my father Algernon Spurr. Also the serial may have one digit obscured, any info appreciated.

ex USAAF 42-19597

Showing the "car door" cockpit access.

As it approaches for landing this aircraft shows off the phenomenal nose wheel leg. The air intake is very evident as these aircraft had the engine fitted behind the pilot, with the propellor drive shaft between the pilot's legs.

This aircraft was a wreck salvaged in Papua New Guinea that travelled to New Zealand and Australia where it was restored to static display by Drage's Air World. In 1989 was sold in the US and eventually displayed at the Museum of Flying with the registration N139DP reserved. From 1996 to 2004 it was restored to airworthy at Chino, flying June 2004 as N739QG. Soon after shipped to the UK to become G-CEJU.

Cancelled as sold in the USA in January 2010 where it became N139RL

Cancelled as sold in the USA in January 2010 where it became N139RL