The restoration of the beautiful but deadly Black Widow continues apace.

The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum's P-61 night fighter restoration project
[shown above at the 2010 WWII Weekend] is getting closer to completion. Soon she will be the only P-61 in the world capable of flight.

Check out the Black Widow and other ancient warbirds [and a whole lot more] at MAAM's WORLD WAR II WEEKEND in Reading, PA on June 3, 4, and 5.


Here's the latest update from March 23, 2011:



One of the P-61's Pratt & Whitney R-2800-65 Double Wasp 18-Cylinder engines stands ready for installation.