Preserved at Pima Air & Space Museum, Arizona, as 311727/USAAF (43-11727). Photo by Steve Kraus.

Delivered to the USAAF as 43-11727. To Honduras as 400 in 1948. Returned to the USA as N9003R in 1960 and stored at Phoenix-Skyharbor. To the museum by 1973 and painted in Soviet colours. Repainted into USAAF colours by 1997.

Despite improvements over the P-39, the P-63 was inferior to other fighters and the vast majority of the 3,303 built were supplied to Russia. With its mid-mounted Allison engine exposed by a viewing panel, this Kingcobra dates back to 1943 when it was built for the USAAF, being sold to the Honduran AF in 1948. In 1960 it was repatriated as N9003R and ended up in open storage at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. In the early 1970s, now under the care of the USAF Museum, it was loaned to Pima and was painted in a Soviet scheme, before the restoration that saw it brought inside in the mid-1990s

Taken at the outdoor aircraft display area at the original USAF Museum. This P-63E was built new in 1945 and kept at Bell for flight testing. To the Honduran AF in October 1948. Damaged on delivery flight toTegucigalpa Air Base and then used as a spare parts hulk. Back to Bell in 1957 where it was restored and donated to the USAF Museum. It is currently falsely marked as RP-63A 42-69654 and is now at the Museum of Aviation at Warner Robins AFB, GA.

One of five Kingcobras acquired by Honduras in 1948/49. Four returned to a collector in the US in 1960 but this one remained to be displayed outside the officers club at Base Aérea Coronel Hernán Acosta Mejía, Toncontin. Displayed variously as '401' and '214' the correct serial is in fact 403 ex 43-11732. The aircraft has since been refurbished and now carries correct serial.

On display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. This Kingcobra is ex 43-11728, painted as an RP-63A manned target aircraft for aerial gunnery practice.

This P-63 is in reality 43-11728 but is on display at the National Museum of the USAF painted in the unusual colour scheme of a 'pinball' RP-63A. Aerial gunnery students fired at these manned target aircraft (RP-63A and RP-63C) using .30-cal. lead and plastic frangible machine gun bullets which disintegrated harmlessly against the target's external armor plating. Special instruments sent impulses to red lights in the nose of the 'pinball' aircraft, causing them to blink if a hit was registered.