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Registration: 43-34915

Construction Number: 1

Model Bell XP-77

Operator: US Army Air Force

Airport: In Flight, International Airspace

Photographer: R.A.Scholefield Collection

Date Taken: 1944

Date Submitted: 01/09/2012

The first prototype XP-77 experimental lightweight fighter powered by a 520 h.p. XV-770 engine and fitted with two 0.5 guns and ventral bomb rack. The second example crashed in October 1944 and the programme was cancelled. From Bell 60 years ago.

Picture ID:1364052

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