On April 6, 1939, the Bell P-39 Airacobra made its first flight, marking the 86th anniversary of this unique aircraft’s debut. Initially designed for the United States Army Air Corps, the P-39 ...

The P-39 Airacobra, alongside its derivative variant the P-63 Kingcobra, was the most successful fixed-wing aircraft ever to be manufactured by Bell.

Bell P-39 Airacobra: Most Hated by the Americans… “ Don’t give me a P-39./The engine is mounted behind./They’ll tumble and spin and auger you in,/Don’t give me a P-39. ” That is one of ...

The P-39 Airacobra may be the least loved American fighter plane of World War II, deemed inadequate by military planners at the outset of hostilities and written off as nearly useless by many ...

Lieutenant Ivan Baranovsky’s P-39 An airacobra’s journey to the eastern front…and back ...

Members of the Ira G. Ross Aerospace Museum are making strides to restore the P-39Q Airacobra, which was discovered with both its leather-bound logbook and the remains of a Russian pilot six years ...

American pilots were not keen on the Bell P-39 Airacobra. The fighter handled poorly at high altitude, where it had to escort the heavy B-17 Flying Fortress on bombing missions, and where the main ...

He was piloting a P-39 Airacobra fighter on a combat mission over Wewak, New Guinea, on July 6, 1944, when a released bomb exploded and destroyed his aircraft.

The result was an ad hoc unit called the Cactus Air Force, after the island’s code name. Its most lackluster member was the Bell P-39 Airacobra.

Mareeba war museum owner Norman Beck reveals the story behind his P-39 Airacobra FIND out what makes this old fighter a special part of the Far North’s wartime history.