Is there an xp-81 at edwards air force base?

Question

I know there is an xp-81 at wright patterson, but I saw on a website that there is an xp-81 at edwards. Is this true?

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

When I flew in there a couple of months ago I did not see it, of course I wasn't looking for it but there were just a few prowlers and f-18's nothing special

Answer 3

Both remaining airframes were removed from Edwards AFB and sent to Wright-Patterson.

Quoted from http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p81.html :

"The XP-81 program was officially terminated on May 9, 1947. Both prototypes were redesignated ZXF-81 in 1948, indicating a testbed status. In 1949, they were both stripped of useful parts and placed on a photographic and bombing range at Edwards AFB. The remains of both machines were stored for a long time at the Flight Test Museum at Edwards. They have now been moved to the USAF Museum at Wright Patterson AFB for eventual restoration and display."

The home page of the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB says this about the CONVAIR XP-81

"This aircraft is located in the Research & Development Gallery on a secure part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

The Convair twin-engine XP-81, tested in 1944-1945, was powered by a conventional turbojet engine and also a turboprop engine in which most of the power was used to turn a propeller rather than being expended as jet thrust. Originally, turboprops offered greater fuel economy than turbojets, but this advantage was offset by improvements in turbojet design."

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factshe...