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How mant P-39 and P-38 are left now???
The Warbird Registry shows approximately 35 surviving P-39's and about 40 P-38's. However, only two of those Airacobras, and around 6 Lightnings, are currently flying. Interestingly enough the ex-Bill Odum YP-47M "Reynold's Bombshell" still survives with the Yanks Air Museum in Chino, CA. Flyable but not flown, see pic below for what it looks like today. There have been two P-47 Thunderbolts that have turned pylons that I'm aware of. In the late '70's Lefty Gardner raced the CAF P-47N at Reno and in the mid '90's Bruce Lockwood turned the pylons in a P-47D at the Phoenix 500. Neither aircraft sported a race paint job though.
