Watch P-63 Kingcobra Lost in 1945 Recovered From a Lake in Russia’s Kamchatka Region After Nearly Eighty Years

Watch P-63 Kingcobra Lost in 1945 Recovered From a Lake in Russia’s Kamchatka Region After Nearly Eighty Years

A fighter plane from the Second World War has surfaced after decades beneath cold water. A Bell P-63 Kingcobra — supplied to the Soviet Union under the U.S. Lend-Lease program — was recently lifted from a lake in Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. The aircraft had crashed in 1945 during a training flight, and its discovery offers a rare look at wartime history lying forgotten beneath the waves. Discovery at the Bottom of the Lake Local lore had long …