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Old 29th July 2019, 13:32
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Re: Unknown Aircraft Instrument Panels

There is a website that has a lot of manuals for various WWII era planes and most of the manuals have a few pages with cockpit panel photos.

www.avialogs.com

You can look up manuals by country and manufacturer. There are manuals for the Bell P-39, P-63 and even the P-59 which also had 37mm cannon. I have looked at them and could not find a real "close" match to the 3rd panel we are trying to identify. The general shape seems right, but the instrument positions don't seem that close. In particular the 37mm cannon switches, loading and charging handles, etc. are in different locations. Perhaps some others can take a look and find something different.

I wonder if these panels were intended for some type of display but are not from actual planes?

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