-Note: Grumman amphibian types: Duck, Goose, Widgeon, Albatross and the Columbia XJL-1 are covered in the Grumman Amphibians section of this website. Also included are civil models, Grumman Mallard and French SCAN.30 Widgeon. Latest update 1.2.18 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

GRUMMAN F4F/FM WILDCAT |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 656 F4F-3 (for French Navy/Aeronavale: not del.) Martlet AL246 (diverted to RN Fleet Air Arm as AL246) Mk. I Loughborough College, Loughborough .45/61 (inst. airframe "Royal Navy AL246/M-2R") RNAS Yeovilton: arrived by road 27.4.61/63 Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton .63/18 (rest., displ. as Royal Navy AL246) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 754 F4F-3 Bu3872 ditched Lake Michigan off carrier USS Wolverine 17.8.43 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL .91 (recov. from Lake Michigan by USNAM .91) Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum/ USS Yorktown Museum, Mt.Pleasant SC: loan 94 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 97/18 (rest., displ. Pensacola from 97 as "3872/72-F-7") _____________________________________________________________________________________ 838 F4F-3A Bu3956 ditched Lake Michigan off carrier USS Wolverine 5.2.44 (recov. from Lake Michigan by NMNA c91) NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 94/15 San Diego Aerospace Museum, San Diego CA .94 (loan, static rest. project) USS Yorktown Museum, Charleston SC 97/16 (loan, displ. on hangar deck as F-15) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 851 F4F-3A Bu3969 ditched Lake Michigan off carrier USS Sable 30.11.43 (recov. from Lake Michigan c87) NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 87/04 Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum/ USS Yorktown Museum, Mt. Pleasant SC: loan 87/90 (static rest. by Grumman NY 92) NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL: suspended from roof 93/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 921 F4F-3 Bu4039 dam. in action, Wake Island, Pacific (repaired) 12.8.41 ditched Lake Michigan off carrier USS Wolverine 21.7.43 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL .91/18 (recov. by NMNA .91; displ. NMNA Pensacola unrest. in underwater diorama as "F-3") _____________________________________________________________________________________ - F4F-3 Bu11824 ditched Lake Michigan off training carrier NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 96/02 (recov. from Lake Michigan, stored unrest. NAS Pensacola 96) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 3523 F4F-3 Bu11828 ditched Lake Michigan off training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine 23.11.42 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL .95/15 (recov. from Lake Michigan 27.9.95, "F-7"; stored unrest. NAS Pensacola 97) San Diego Aerospace Museum, San Diego CA .96/18 (loan, static rest. at SDAM 96/98 for display, completed, displ. as 30508/13) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 3763 F4F-4 Bu12068 VMF-214, forced landing 30 miles east of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal 14.3.43 Vilu War Museum, Honiara, Solomon Islands .73/10 (barged to Honiara .73, displ. as unrest. hulk) _____________________________________________________________________________________

3809 F4F-4 Bu12114 NAS Sand Point WA: retired, open storage 45/50 Edison Technical School/ Seattle Community College, White Centre, Seattle WA 55/68 (instructional airframe) USMC Museum, MCAS Quantico VA 9.68/06 (shipped Seattle-Quantico .68, stored: static rest. 6.75/78, displ. as "12114/2") National Museum of the USMC, MCAS Quantico VA: displ. at opening of new museum building 13.11.06/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5920 F4F-3 Bu12260 ditched Lake Michigan off carrier USS Wolverine 1.5.44 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL .91 (recov. ex Lake Michigan 12.12.91 by A&T Recovery, very good condition "F-3") A & T Recovery Inc, Batavia IL 12.91 N12260 Jim Porter & Dick Hansen, Batavia IL 12.91/03 (rest. Batavia IL, ff 18.7.94 as "12260/F-3") Stephen Craig/ S. J. Craig Farms LLC, Lawrence KS 2.9.03/07 Rod Lewis/ Lewis Aeronautical LLC/ Lewis Fighter Fleet LLC, San Antonio TX 7.9.07/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5950 F4F-3 Bu12290 ditched Lake Michigan off carrier USS Sable 8.6.44 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 97/08 (F-3: recov. from Lake Michigan 5.9.96; stored unrest. NAS Pensacola 97/08, arr. NAS North Island, San Diego 2.4.08) USS Midway Museum, San Diego CA .08/16 (static rest. NAS North Island, San Diego 08/11 prior to display on carrier) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5956 F4F-3 Bu12296 ditched Lake Michigan, off carrier USS Sable 21.6.43 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL .91 (recov. ex Lake Michigan 1.12.91 by A&T Recovery, very good condition "F-1") A & T Recovery Inc, Batavia IL 12.91 N3210D A & T Recovery Inc: reg. candidate 12.91 David P. Kensler/ Warbird Aircraft Restoration & Salvage Inc, Waterford MI 12.91/96 (rest. Pontiac MI, ff 20.6.95 as "12296/F-1") John C. Dimmer, Tacoma WA .96/06 Museum of Flight, Seattle WA: loan, del. 22.4.04/06 Pacific Aviation Museum, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu HI 19.9.06/18 (displ. as blue US Navy 12287/F-1) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5957 F4F-3 Bu12297 ditched Lake Michigan off carrier USS Sable 16.1.44 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 88/15 (recov. from Lake Michigan .88) Cradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City NY 88/18 (loan, static rest. completed by Grumman staff at Bethpage NY) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5980 F4F-3 Bu12320 ditched Lake Michigan, off carrier USS Sable 31.3.44 N5254A NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 8.10.92/15 (recov. ex Lake Michigan, static rest. at Jacksonville FL 92 for NMNA) USMCM, MCAS El Toro CA: loan, displ. as "6" 93/97 (static rest .97 at duPage IL for displ. at Chicago Airport as memorial to "Butch" O'Hare) Chicago-O'Hare Terminal 2: loan, displ. as "15" .97/15 _____________________________________________________________________________________ - FM-1 Bu14494 ditched Lake Michigan off carrier USS Sable 2.9.43 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 93/15 (recov. ex Lake Michigan .93) Valiant Air Command, Titusville FL: loan .94/15 (static rest. at Tico FL, displ. as "14994/F-7")

_____________________________________________________________________________________ 401 FM-1 Bu15392 inst. airframe, Tech School, Norman OK 47/49 NASM Store, Silver Hill MD: stored .49/73 (static rest. by Grumman Bethpage NY 74/75) NASM, Washington DC: displ. as E10" 75/15 _____________________________________________________________________________________ - FM-1 Bu15633 (to RN Fleet Air Arm as JV482) Mk. V "6C": ditched Portmore Lough, Ireland 24.12.44 Ulster Aviation Society, Langford Lodge, County Antrim, later Long Kesh airfield, N Ireland 4.84/18 (recov. by chopper 30.4.84, displ. during long-term rest. painted as JV482/S) _____________________________________________________________________________________ - FM-1 Bu58846 (to RN Fleet Air Arm as JV348): to inst. airframe Mk. V Portsmouth Civil Defence School, Portsmouth 58/62 (fuselage only by 62) RNAY Fleetlands: scrapped .63 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 1288 FM-2 Bu16089 ditched Lake Michigan off training carrier 12.44 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL .93/18 (recov. from Lake Michigan by NMNA 12.93 "M-5"; stored unrest. NAS Pensacola 93/94, displ. Pensacola in Pacific Island diorama from 97) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 1360 FM-2 Bu16161 ditched Lake Michigan off carrier USS Wolverine 12.4.45 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 96 (recov. from Lake Michigan 27.6.96; stored unrest. Pensacola 96/99 "CASU 24/35") traded by NMNA to Tallichet for Brewster SB2A .03 Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson AZ: loan .03/18 N4224W David C. Tallichet/ MARC, Chino CA: reg. 20.10.04/18 (displ. at Pima, unrest. but in good condition, fuse. on undercarriage, CASU 24/35 on fuse, 18 on tail) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 1477 FM-2 Bu16278 ditched Lake Michigan off training carrier 26.6.45 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL .91/15 (recov. from Lake Michigan .91; static rest. Jacksonville FL, displ. Pensacola 96/97 as "7") NMNA, MCAS El Toro CA: loan, displ. "7" 98 NMNA, MCAS Miramar CA: loan, displ. "16278/7" 99/17 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 2020 FM-2 Bu46867 displ. motor garage, Palwaukee IL 61/65 Earl Rheinert/ Victory Air Museum, Mundelein IL 68/76 (later stored dism. at Chino CA) N909WJ Don Whittington/ World Jet Inc, Ft Lauderdale FL2.8.89/91 (rest. Ft. Collins CO 89/90, del. to Chino CA .90) Douglas W. Arnold/ Warbirds of Great Britain Ltd, Biggin Hill 12.90/94 (shipped to UK, arr. Felixstowe Docks 12.90; towed on wheels to Ispwich Airport 30.12.90, flown to Biggin Hill 30.12.90; stored Bournemouth, del. Bournemouth-Lelystad, Netherlands 23.11.92: stored Lelystad 92/95) Iron Baron Corp, Dover DE: USCR 17.8.94/04 David Arnold/ Flying A Services, Earls Colne .96/04 (wfu, stored North Weald 97/03, rep. shipped to USA .03) Bruce E. Graham, Irvine CA 12.10.05/07 Michael J. Gillian, Downers Grove IL 14.6.07/18 (note: USCR quotes id. Bu16203) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 2183 FM-2 Bu47030 N1940M reg .51 N315E Alexis I. (Lex) DuPont, Wilmington DE 20.12.62/72 Alexis I. DuPont/ Colonial Flying Corps Museum, Toughkenamon PA 73/09 (flew as USN "47030/F-13", later "F-1")

Gerald W. Yagen/ Fighter Factory Inc, Suffolk VA 4.09/13 Gerald W. Yagen/ Military Aviation Museum, Virginia Beach VA 4.09/18 (del. to Suffolk 9.09 for rest., ff 6.4.11 as USN "30") _____________________________________________________________________________________ 2313 FM-2 Bu47160 inst. airframe, Trade School MT 50/56 (sold to ag. operator .56, conv. to sprayer) N2876D Western Aerial Contractors, Eugene OR 59/64 (CofA issued 14.10.59 agriculture pest control) Robert J. Hartlaub, Summit NJ 66/69 Air Sales Inc, Miami FL 70 Keith J. Mackey, Opa Locka FL 70/72 (flew as "USN 7") Wings of Yesterday Flying Air Museum, Santa Fe NM 77/84 N551TC John C. Hooper/ Intracoastal Terminal Inc, Harvey LA 5.84/91 Robert L. Waltrip/ Air SRV Inc/ Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston TX 2.8.91/06 (flies as USN "7 Old Fang") Greg Shelton/ FM-2 LLC, Tulsa OK, Lewes DE .06/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ - FM-2 Bu55052 ditched Lake Michigan off carrier USS Wolverine 14.6.45 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 94/18 (recov. from Lake Michigan 12.10.94; stored Pensacola 96/06, unrest. "6" & "15") USS Hornet Memorial, Alameda Point CA: loan .06/18 (arr. crated unrest., rest. project on board carrier, unveiled 19.8.17 completed in Navy blue) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 3045 FM-2 Bu55404 ditched Lake Michigan off deck of training carrier USS Wolverine 19.12.44 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL: salvaged from lake 12.93 (stored NAS Pensacola pending rest. 93/08) Conrad Huffstutler/ Huff Air, Uvalde TX 08/12 (55404 and two other FM-2 projects arr. by road at Uvalde TX 7.7.09: for rest. of N774FM) (offered for sale as a time capsule rest. project 6.12) G-WCMO Bygone Engineering Ltd, Charlbury 23.9.13/16 Wildcat WP Ltd, Charlbury 6.12.16/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 3226 FM-2 Bu55585 N681S Joe Speidel, Miami FL 61 Lloyd P. Nolan/ Confederate AF, Mercedes TX 5.61/64 Gerald Martin/ Confederate AF, Hereford TX 66/72 (flew in civil scheme 66/72 painted as N6815) Confederate Air Force, Harlingen/ Midland TX 2.2.72/08 (flew as 41-F-4 USS Ranger by 77) dam. In landing accident c6.93 (repaired, flies as USN "55585/F-15") crashed near Houston-Ellington TX 18.10.03 N585FM Legacy Aviation Partners LLC, Wilmington DE 22.12.08 Conrad Huffstutler/ Huff Air, Uvalde TX: wreck 09 (55585 and two other FM-2 projects arr. by road at Uvalde TX 7.7.09: for rest. of N774FM) Skyway Aero Inc, Reno NV 9.9.09/13 sold to UK, struck-off USCR 26.9.13 G-WCME Bygone Engineering Ltd, Charlbury 27.9.13/16 Wildcat WP Ltd, Charlbury 6.12.16/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 3268 FM-2 Bu55627 N7906C Ed Maloney/ The Air Museum, Ontario CA 59/72 N47201 James Nunn, Ontario CA .76/77 (CofA issued 10.11.76) John V. Crocker, San Mateo CA 82/84 Stephen Grey, Duxford UK: leased .82/85 (del. USA to France, arr. 11.6.82, based Duxford as USN "47201/8") Robert J. Pond/ Planes of Fame East,

Minneapolis-Flying Cloud MN: shipped ex UK 6.85/97 Bob Pond/ Pond Warbirds LLC/ Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs CA 12.97/18 (flies as USN F-3") (USCR quotes id. 3268, also quoted as Bu03455) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 3646 FM-2 Bu57039 ditched Lake Michigan off deck of training carrier USS Sable 28.12.44 recov. from 200 feet depth in Lake Michigan 2-7.12.12 (salvage sponsored by Charles Greenhill, moved to his hangar at Kenosha WI, then to NMNA ) NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL .12/15 Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Kalamazoo MI: arr. 8.13/18 (rest. for display by KAHM began 2.14 for planned displ. at Hangar One Museum, Glenview IL) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 4312 FM-2 Bu74120 park war memorial, Windsor Locks CT 50/67 Bradley Air Museum, Windsor Locks CT 25.5.67/80 New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks CT 83/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 4353 FM-2 Bu74161 ditched Lake Michigan off training carrier NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 93/15 (recov. from Lake Michigan .93, good condition, stored NAS Pensacola) Admiral Nimitz State Historical Park, Fredericksburg TX: loan, rest. for displ. 93/06 nn: National Museum of the Pacific War, Fredericksburg TX: loan, displ. 06/15 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 4704 FM-2 Bu74512 Edison Technical School, Seattle WA 50/60 park playground, White Centre, Seattle WA 65/69 Pacific Northwest Aviation History Museum, Seattle-Boeing Field WA .69/83 (static rest. commenced, Sand Point NAS Seattle later Fairchild AFB WA) Museum of Flight, Seattle-Boeing Field WA .83/18 (by road to Cradle of Aviation, Garden City NY for rest. on behalf of MoF, returned to MoF Restoration Facility, Everett-Paine Field WA 94/11, completed for display) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 4752 FM-2 Bu74560 N90523 Air Service Kontrol Inc, West Bend WI c50/60 Frank G. Tallman, Riverside-Flabob CA 60/61 Wade R. Porter, Columbus IN 63/64 Yankee Air Club Inc, Sunderland MA 66 Damn Yankee Air Force, Turner Falls MA 66/69 William C. Whitesell, Medford NJ .69/70 Doug Champlin/ Windward Aviation, Enid OK .71/79 Champlin Fighter Museum, Mesa AZ 78/90 Tom Friedkin/ Cinema Air, Houston TX 23.7.90 N16TF Cinema Air, Houston TX and Carlsbad CA 12.90/91 N29FG Tom Friedkin/ Cinema Air/ Chino Warbirds Inc/ Comanche Warbirds Inc, Houston TX 7.91/18 (flies as USN 74560") _____________________________________________________________________________________ 4955 FM-2 Bu74763 N29B noted as sprayer, Safford AZ 7.58 (sprayer, 2 underwing tanks & 2 wingtip tanks) Mel Coeur/ Sonora Air Service, Columbia CA 14.4.59/71 struck-off USCR 25.8.71 (last FAA annual inspection report 10.60) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5618 FM-2 Bu86564 N4629V Frank Tallman, Riverside-Flabob CA 56/61 Paul Mantz & Frank G. Tallman/ Tallmantz Aviation/ Movieland of the Air, Orange County CA 11.61/66 Rosen Novak Auto Co, Omaha NE 66 (remained at Tallmantz until auction 29.5.68)

F. R. Davis, Beaverton OR 29.5.68/70 Charles F. Nichols/ Yankee Air Corps/ Yanks Air Museum, Chino CA 6.83/18 (displ. as 86564) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5626 FM-2 Bu86572 N35MK Matthew Kibler, Baltimore MD .54/57 (CofA issued 21.8.56) Chris D. Stoltzfus, Coatesville PA .57/58 (planned sprayer but not conv., flew in civil scheme) Lyman Rice, Laconia NH 59 (flew 59 in bogus camouflage, 17 on nose) Hamilton Aircraft Co, Tucson AZ 63/64 New London Airport, New London PA 66/69 Jacques R. DuPont, Newcastle DE 72 rep. dam. in landing accident .72 (stored dam.in Deleware 72/) N35M sale rep. 84/88 struck-off USCR 4.90 N86572 Thomas L. Camp/ Warhawk Air Museum, 26.8.97/18 Caldwell ID, moved to Nampa ID (rest. Ione CA, ff .03 as US Navy grey/white 2) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5635 FM-2 Bu86581 New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas NM: inst. airframe 25.3.46/68 (abandoned stripped, Las Vegas NM 68) Robert L. Younkin, Fayetteville AR .68 (trucked to Fayetteville AR for rest., ff .69) N86581 Gunther W. Balz, Kalamazoo MI .69/71 Preston Parish, Kalamazoo MI 12.71/73 N1PP Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Kalamazoo MI (flew as USN 7") 74/18 dam. during forced landing, Fort Wayne IN .84 dam. forced landing wheels-up in corn field, Woodburn IN 22.7.94 (repaired, flew as USN "86581/1") struck-off USCR 30.9.13 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5734 FM-2 Bu86680 NX55558 Richard R. Carlisle AL .46 N777A Alfred T. Whiteside, Jacksonville FL 55/56 (mod. with cabin in fuselage behind cockpit, 4 windows, to carry 4 passengers!) YV-T-OTO reg. 1.62 YV-T-HTJ struck-off reg. 10.2.69 N11FE Frederick W. Edison, Kalamazoo MI 5.70/74 (US CofA renewed 29.1.71) crashed into Lake Michigan during low pass at South Haven MI 29.6.75 (salvaged, repaired: flew as USN 5734) Richard Foote, Summerland Key FL 76/84 Richard Foote/ Professional Aircraft Sales, New Smyrna Beach FL 86/06 (flew as USN "5734 USS Tulagi/5") Carrier Deck Aviation Inc, Kissimmee FL 3.1.08/09 Mustang Aviation Partners, Wilmington DE 17.9.10/12 Frank W. Dworak, Stow MA 29.10.12/14 Skyraider A1E LLC, Rocky Hill CT 14.2.14/18 (USCR quotes id. 5734; also quoted as Bu86870; note: id. confusion with c/n 5835 que se) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5744 FM-2 Bu86690 N20HA Jack Hardwick/ Hard11fewwick Aircraft, El Monte CA .46 Don Underwood, Phoenix AZ 56/58 (sprayer, 2 underwing tanks & 2 wingtip tanks) S. S. Steele, Safford AZ 63/64 James R. Freese, Fremont CA/ Modesto CA 66/74 Jack Lenhardt/ Lenhardt Airpark, Hubbard OR 77/79 (flew as "Marines/2") NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL .79/93

(displ. as "86690/2") N70637 World Jet Inc, Fort Lauderdale FL 8.93 Jeff Clyman/ NA-50 Inc, New York NY 10.93/94 N49JC Jeff Clyman/ NA-50 Inc, New York NY 1.94/95 Alpine Fighter Collection, Wanaka NZ: not del. 7.94 John C. Dimmer, Tacoma WA 3.10.95/11 (flew as blue "Marines 86690/2-F") Museum of Flight, Seattle WA: loan, displ. 06/11 Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden .11/16 (arr. dism. Old Warden 23.2.12 as "Marines 2-F", rest. to fly in RNFAA Martlet paint scheme) G-CHPN Richard Shuttleworth Trustees, Old Warden 23.5.13/16 G-KINL Thomas W. Harris, Leighton Buzzard 11.5.16/18 (rest. to fly at Duxford 17) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5765 FM-2 Bu86711 N4845V Dale P. Newton, Medford OR 64/70 Eric G. Mingledorf, Monroe LA 24.9.75/98 Chennault Air Museum, Monroe LA: displ. The Fighter Collection, Duxford: lease .92/98 (rest. Chino CA, ff 14.1.93 "USN 86711/84", shipped to UK, arr. Duxford 15.4.93, ff 2.5.93) G-RUMW Patina Ltd/ The Fighter Collection, Duxford 15.4.98/18 (flies in RNFAA camouflage as "F") _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5795 FM-2 Bu86741 N19K Matthew Kibler, Baltimore MD 55/57 (CoFA issued 12.3.55) Chris D. Stoltzfus, Coatesville PA .57/62 (planned sprayer but not conv., stored Coatesville engineless, name No Pollyanna) Ernest J. Saviano, La Grange IL 64 Alexis I. DuPont, Wilmington DE later Toughkenamon PA (stored dism., parts source) 66/88 Kermit A. Weeks, Tamiami FL .88/90 (trucked to Tamiami from PA .88) N222FM Kermit Weeks/ Weeks Air Museum, Tamiami FL 7.90/99 (rest. Tamiami 89/93, ff .93 as "86741/4") Kermit Weeks/ Fantasy of Flight, Polk City FL 99/18 (USCR quotes id. 5975: 5795 believed correct: Bu86596 has also quoted) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5804 FM-2 Bu86746 N6290C California Polytechnic Institute CA c47 owner, Medford OR: stripped for spares c52 Forrest M. Watson, Wellington TX 64 Robert L. Younkin, Fayetteville AR: hulk owner, St. Louis MO: rest. project Dick Lambert & Michael Rettke, Atlanta GA 2.66 (trucked dism. St Louis-Atlanta GA 4.66, rest., ff 6.6.67 as USN "86940/5") Michael G. Rettke, Merritt Island FL 69 Rudolph A. Frasca/ Antiques & Classics Inc/ Frasca Air Museum, Frasca Field, Champaign IL 13.2.70/18 (flies as USN blue "5", later 6B) (USCR quotes id. 5804, also rep. as Bu86940) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5805 FM-2 Bu86747 N68843 Charlie T. Jensen, Reno NV (sprayer) 56/72 (wfu, stored Reno NV 56-73, yellow civil scheme) Kenneth Spiva, Tracy CA/ Lovelock NV .74/77 (ferried to Stockton CA for rest., flew as USN "7") NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 81/18 (displ. as USN "86747") _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5808 FM-2 Bu86750 N12371 Robert L. Younkin, Fayetteville AR 65/77 (CofA issued 29.6.65, sold .83 as partly completed rest. project) Jack B. Barnett, Arabi TX 10.83 crashed Houston-Lakeside TX (Barnett k) 14.10.83

N750FM Legacy Aviation Partners LLC, Wilmington DE 08/09 (offered for sale 3.09 as project, no fuselage) Conrad Huffstutler/ Huff Air, Uvalde TX 22.11.10/13 sold to UK, struck-off USCR 26.9.13 G-WCMI Bygone Engineering Ltd, Charlbury 27.9.13/16 Wildcat WP Ltd, Charlbury 6.12.16/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5812 FM-2 Bu86754 N58918 Medford Air Service, Medford OR .55/58 (agricultural sprayer, 2 large underwing tanks) Ron Zerbel, Nyssa OR 63/64 Spray Rite Inc, Oakley ID 66/70 Don H. Novas, Blackfoot ID 77/87 (wfu Blackfoot ID 77/87, became derelict) Erickson Air Crane/ Erickson Group Ltd, Medford OR .87/14 (rest., CofA renewed 6.6.91, flies in USN scheme) Tillamook NAS Air Museum, Tillamook OR 97/14 Erickson Aircraft Collection, Madras OR: opened28.14/18 (flies in midnight blue USN 86754) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5831 FM-2 Bu86773 N1352N Medford Air Service, Medford OR .55/58 (CofA issued 14.4.57 agricultural category, sprayer, with large underwing tanks) Butler Aviation, Redmond OR (sprayer) 58 crashed, forced landing, Burns OR c60 Ron Zerbel, Nyssa OR (dam.) c61 Medford Air Service, Medford OR 63/70 Robert L. Younkin, Fayetteville AR 77/92 Bruce D. Roberts, New London PA 13.7.94/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5832 FM-2 Bu86774 Ed Maloney/ The Air Museum, Claremont CA .57/69 Ed Maloney/ Planes of Fame, Chino CA 75/02 Flying Heritage Collection, Seattle WA .03/08 N774FM Flying Heritage Collection, Everett WA 17.12.08 (offered for sale 3.08 as almost compete static rest. project located at Caldwell ID) Conrad Huffstutler/ Huff Air, Uvalde TX .09 (86774 and two other FM-2 projects arr. by road at Uvalde TX 7.7.09 for rest.) Skyway Aero Inc, Reno NV 9.9.09/14 (rest. completed, ff 13.7.13 as blue USN 16) N774FM LLC, Granite Falls MN 1.15/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5835 FM-2P Bu86777 N90541 I. N. "Junior" Burchinall, Paris TX 12.74 N5HP Howard E. Pardue/ Breckenridge Aviation Museum, Breckenridge TX 12.80/12 (flew as USN "5 Kimberly Brooke") overturned during landing, Burnet TX (repaired) 10.4.04 Texas Wildcat LLC, Houston TX 8.1.13/18 op: Texas Flying Legends Museum, Houston TX 13/18 (complex papertrail, overlapping c/n 5734: que se) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5877 FM-2 Bu86819 N....... Calvin J. Butler, Redmond OR (sprayer) c57 crashed while spraying c58 Ron Zerbel, Nyssa OR (dam.) c60 various owners while under rebuild Eugene Mahlon OR 73 Charles F. Nichols/ Yankee Air Corps, Chino CA .81 N5833 Charles F. Nichols/ Yankee Air Corps, Chino CA 8.83/88 Confederate AF/Air Group One, Ramona CA .86/01 (trucked Chino-Ramona for rest., ff 24.4.87) nn: Commemorative Air Force, Midland TX 1.89/18 dam. undercarriage collapse while parked CA .93 (repaired, flies as "86819/00/USS Carl Vinson", shipped to NZ 3.02 for airshows, arr. NZ 23.3.02; returned to USA, repainted .03 as Royal Navy Q-T) (USCR quotes id. 5833)

_____________________________________________________________________________________ 6014 FM-2 Bu86956 N18PK E. J. Saviano, La Grange IL 58/64 N18P William D. Ross, Chicago IL 66/67 Louis V. Gallo & Charlie Keller, Hillside IL 69/77 (rest. Hillside IL 77, flew 77 as USN 17) Joseph G. Mabee, Midland TX 3.80/95 James Cavanaugh/ Cavanaugh Flight Museum/ Cavanaugh Collection, Dallas-Addison TX 21.7.95/18 (flies as USN "86960/17") (also rep. as Bu86960, plate quotes 6014) _____________________________________________________________________________________ - FM-2 N5956V flew with Donald Duck logo on fuselage 50s _____________________________________________________________________________________ - FM-1 ditched Lake Washington, near Seattle WA Matt McCauley and Jeff Hummel t/a Recovery Services Ltd, Bellevue WA: salvaged from Lake Washington. 26.5.87 Bruce D. Roberts, New London PA .87/90 _____________________________________________________________________________________ - FM-2 ditched Lake Washington, near Seattle WA Matt McCauley and Jeff Hummel t/a Recovery Services Ltd, Bellevue WA: salvaged from Lake Washington. 26.5.87 Bruce D. Roberts, New London PA .87/90 _____________________________________________________________________________________ ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

GRUMMAN F6F HELLCAT |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| A-212 F6F-3 Bu08825 N4965V Michael E. Coutches, Hayward CA 59/62 (open storage unrest. Navy UA15, Hayward 59/61) Wayne B. Fowler, Shaw Island WA: sprayer 64/66 (sprayer & fire bomber: allover yellow with large red tanks under wings) Charles F. Willis/ Willisco Inc, New York NY 68/72 (based Seattle-Paine Field WA, flown in Alaska Airlines colour scheme Little Nugget) Willard Compton, Canby OR 75/03 struck ditches, forced landing, near Canby OR 12.6.77 (Compton stored the wreck and collected parts for a long-term rebuild project) Jack Croul/ Allied Fighters Inc, Chino CA 11/13

(rest. to fly at Caldwell ID 11/13, using Bu41476 as pattern for jigs required) _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-218 F6F-3 Bu08831 Chicago Vocational School, Chicago IL 47/69 Earl Reinert/ Victory Air Museum, Mundelein IL: stored, incomplete airframe .69/79 Ed Maloney/ Planes of Fame Museum, Chino CA .79 (rear fuse. and tail only: used in rebuild of N4964W) Charles F. Nichols/ Yankee Air Corps renamed Yanks Air Museum, Chino CA: stored 79/12 remainder of airframe: fuse. centre-section used in rebuild .80 of N100TF, remainder stored) (stored sections used in an F6F airworthy rebuild at Chino 11/12 by YAM, based on Bu40467: que se) _____________________________________________________________________________________ - F6F-3 Bu25910 ditched Lake Michigan, off carrier USS Sable 5.1.45 recov. from lake near Waukegan Harbor IL 30.11.09 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL: rest., displ. 09/16

_____________________________________________________________________________________ A-1257 F6F-3 Bu66237 ditched, Pacific Ocean, near San Diego CA 12.1.44 (Z11 recov. from depth 3400ft by USN 10.10.70) NAS North Island CA: standing on gear, unrest. 70/74 San Diego Aero Space Museum: not collected 72 Pima County Air Museum, Tucson AZ .74/92 (displ. in open, unrest. "Z11") NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 92/16 (moved from Pima to Jacksonville FL .92 for static rest., using parts salvaged from drone F6F wrecks at NAS facility San Nicholas Island CA; displ. NMNA as 66237/17) _____________________________________________________________________________________ - F6F-3 Bu40267 (to Royal Navy FAA as JV111) Mk. I "E-P": crashed into sea, Bay of Rosas, Spain 22.8.44 salvaged by fishermen, off Cap Creuse 3.12.79 (complete fuselage, RN markings readable) hulk in scrapyard, Rosas 79/82; gone by 83 _____________________________________________________________________________________ A--1733 F6F-3 Bu40467 VF-6 on carrier USS intrepid, Pacific: issued new 11.43 (9 kills in this aircraft by US top ace Lt Alex Vraciu) Earl Reinert/ Victory Air Museum, Mundelein IL 70/75 (incomplete airframe, stored) Charles F. Nichols/ Yankee Air Corps/ Yanks Air Museum, Chino CA: stored dism. 80/10 (components rep. used in a F6F airworthy rebuild at Chino 2011-13 by YAM) _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-2742 F6F-3 Bu41476 Walter E. Ohlrich, Norfolk VA N41476 USMC Museum, MCAS Quantico VA 21.12.71/08 Evergreen Aviation Educational Institute, McMinnville OR: loan, displ. 04/08 Vintage Airframes, Caldwell ID: loan 10/12 (pattern to design jigs to rebuild Bu08825) Collings Foundation, Stow MA 14.12.12/18 (planned rest. to fly at New Smyrna Beach FL) _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-3100 F6F-3 Bu41834 (target drone measuring radiation from US atomic F6F-3K bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, Pacific Ocean in 1946) NASM Store, Silver Hill MD 75/01 Yorktown Association, Charleston SC: loan 10.76/81 (displ. on USS Yorktown, Mt.Pleasant SC) NASM Store, Silver Hill MD .81 (rest. by Grumman Corp, Bethpage NY.83) NASM, Washington DC : displ. .87/88 NASM Store, Silver Hill MD 89/02 (displ. as "41834/37") NASM, Udvar-Hazy Centre, Washington-Dulles 03/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-3196 F6F-3 Bu41930 N6096C Wayne B. Fowler, Shaw Island WA 63/64 (sprayer & fire bomber: large tanks under wings) John Church, Monterey CA .64/65 N103V Peter J. Brucia, Garden City NY: del. 11.65/70 William Ross, Elk Grove Village IL 72 Doug Champlin/ Windward Aviation, Enid OK .72/81 Champlin Fighter Museum, Mesa AZ 81/90 Tom Friedkin/ Cinema Air, Houston TX .90/91 N30FG Tom Friedkin/ Cinema Air/ Chino Warbirds Inc/ Comanche Warbirds Inc, Houston TX 7.91/18 (flies as USN "41930/5K", repainted .11 USN "K29") _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-4140 F6F-3 Bu42874 USNAM, NAS Pensacola FL 79/04 (recov. ex ocean ditching off California) San Diego Aerospace Museum, San Diego CA 79/17 (loan, displ. as USN "42874/21") nn: San Diego Air and Space Museum .06/18 (id. confusion with Bu79669 below)

_____________________________________________________________________________________ A-4280 F6F-3 Bu43014 recov. from a Boy Scout campground N7537U John R. Sandberg, Minneapolis MN 69/70 David B. Robinson, Miami FL 72/84 (rest. project, Miami Airport 70/84) Kermit A. Weeks/ Weeks Air Museum, Tamiami FL 30.8.84/99 (stored partially rest. Tamiami 96) Kermit Weeks/ Fantasy of Flight, Polk City FL 99/18 (stored at Fantasy of Flight 14 pending rest.) (id. prev. incorrectly rep. as Bu80167) _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-5597 F6F-5 Bu70185 ditched in sea off Martha's Vineyard MA 3.4.45 Quonset Air Museum, Quonset Point RI 12.93/10 (hulk salvaged from sea 4.12.93, broke up during recovery: all parts except engine recovered) (legal action by US Navy over alleged unlawful acquisition: settled as a loan agreement from NMNA to Quonset Air Museum: displ. Quonset as static rest. project) _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-5634 F6F-5 Bu70222 derelict stripped, Fergus Falls Airport MN 55/61 Joe Dvorak: towed off airport 61 N1078Z John R. Sandberg, Minneapolis MN .61/72 (ferried Fergus Falls-Minneapolis for full rest.) overturned during forced landing due engine failure, Minneapolis-Crystal MN (repaired) 25.10.64 Lloyd P. Nolan/ Confederate AF, Harlingen TX .72/73 Ed Messick/ Confederate AF, Harlingen TX 9.4.73/90 nn: Commemorative Air Force, Midland TX 90/18 (rest. 86/98 Midland-Mabee Ranch TX, struck by car during taxy trials, repaired, ff .98 as USN "74 Tinsi III") _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-8867 F6F-5K Bu77722 USN BOC 1.45: conv. to F6F-5K drone .56 based NAS China Lake CA & NAS Point Mugu CA 56/61 dam. landing, struck vehicle, NAS Point Mugu 5.61 US Naval Reserve Base, Andrews AFB MD .65/10 (displ. as weather vane on pedestal as "Navy 77722") _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-9790 F6F-5 Bu78645 N9265A Charles F. Nichols/ Yankee Air Corps/ Yanks Air Museum, Chino CA 3.78/18 (CofA issued 3.3.81, displ. as USN "78645/45") _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-10337 F6F-5K Bu79192 Bradley Air Museum, Windsor Locks CT: arr. 25.10.73 (recov. from NAS China Lake CA .73) dam. by tornado at museum 3.10.79 New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks CT 83/18 (rest. completed .92, displ. as USN "79192/S60") _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-10738 F6F-5K Bu79593 Bradley Air Museum, Windsor Locks CT .73 (recov. ex storage NAS China Lake CA .73) USS Alabama Battleship Memorial, Mobile AL 76/91 (displ. as "F6F-3 41476") Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum/ USS Yorktown Museum, Mount Pleasant SC 93/10 (displ. hangar deck USS Yorktown "F6F-5 79593/00") _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-10814 F6F-5N Bu79669 (to NACA as NACA 208) 6.50/60 NAS Patuxent River MD: variable stability trials 50 NAS Moffett Field CA 60/72 (displ. as USN "F-6F 1158") NAS Miramara CA: displ. as F-6F 1158/35 74/79 San Diego Aerospace Museum, San Diego CA 5.79/18 nn: San Diego Air and Space Museum .06/18 (id. confusion with Bu42874 above) _____________________________________________________________________________________

A-10828 F6F-5K Bu79683 N7896C John A. Ortseifen, Fort Lauderdale FL 63/77 (retired Chicagoland Airport IL 66/77, all metallic) Preston Parish, Kalamazoo MI .79/81 N4PP Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Kalamazoo MI 23.6.81/17 (rest. Kalamazoo, ff .81 as "79683/4") retired for display, struck-off USCR 31.12.11 _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-10924 F6F-5 Bu79779 (to Royal Navy FAA as KE209) Mk. II RNAS Lossiemouth: stored for museum: del. 4.53/60 Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton 65/17 _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-11008 F6F-5K Bu79863 Grumman Aircraft Co, Bethpage NY 56/57 USNAM, NAS Pensacola FL .57/72 N79863 Mike Rettke/ Aerial Classics, Atlanta GA .72/84 (CofA issued 14.5.80) Patriots Point Development Authority/ USS Yorktown Museum, Mount Pleasant SC 86/91 (displ. on USS Yorktown" 86/91) Douglas W. Arnold/ Warbirds of Great Britain Ltd, Bitteswell .91/92 David Arnold/ Iron Baron Corp, Dover DE/ Flying A Services, Earls Colne UK 2.8.94/00 (del. to North Weald 8.8.97 via Glasgow 7.8.97 as USN "00", stored North Weald 97/00) Paul G. Allen/ Vulcan Warbirds Inc, Seattle WA 12.00/15 (trucked ex storage North Weald 12.7.01 for shipping to USA) Flying Heritage Museum, Arlington WA, later Everett-Paine Field WA: displ. as USN "00" 06/18 (displ. as USN 00, then rest. to airworthy, ff Paine Field WA 27.3.13 as US navy 32) _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-11286 F6F-5N Bu80141 ` conv. to F6F-5K target drone 3.57 F6F-5K Johnsville NAS PA: survived target drone service 57/60 US Navy disposal, TT 1800 hrs 9.61 Earl Reinert/ Victory Air Museum, Mundelein IL USMC Museum, MCAS Quantico VA 65/70 N80142 USMC Museum, MCAS Quantico VA 28.9.67/71 (USMCM requested N80141 but not available) W. C. Yarbrough, Marietta GA 22.4.71 (overhaul at Peachtree-Dekalb Airport GA, FAA issued CofA 28.9.71, TT 202 hrs) Staggerwing Service Centre, Tullahoma TN 15.11.71 N100TF Thomas H. Friedkin, Rancho Santa Fe CA 20.4.75/78 nosed-over taxying omn soft ground after landing, Elsinore-Skylark Airport CA 4.12.76 Thomas Friedkin/ Cinema Air Inc, Houston TX15.10.78/82 badly dam. in forced landing on rough ground off-airport San Marcos CA, struck earth bank 3.4.79 Charles Nichols/ Yankee Air Corps, Chino CA 15.2.82/89 (acquired as wreck, rebuild begun at Chino CA, using Bu80141 port wing, unused crated stbd wing, fuselage center-section of Bu08831: CofA issued at Chino 6.7.88, all metallic) N100TF David C. Tallichet/ Military Aircraft Restoration Corp, Chino CA .88/89 (test flown Chino 7.89) Patina Ltd/ The Fighter Collection, Duxford 2.8.89/90 N10CN Steve Hinton, Chino on behalf The Fighter Collection12.89 N100TF Steve Hinton, Chino on behalf The Fighter Collection1.90 shipped ex Chino to UK, arr. by road Duxford 1.8.90) G-BTCC Patina Ltd/ The Fighter Collection, Duxford 31.12.90/15 (flew as blue USN "40467/19") (TFC claimed evidence that the centre-section was in fact from Alex Vracuis Bu40467, and in 2004 CAA

agreed to change G-BTCCs identity to 40467: which gave the aircraft a much more valuable provincence: see Bu40467 this listing sold to USA, dep. Duxford by road 6.2.15 N467RL Spitfire Aircraft LLC, San Antonio TX 19.5.15/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-11631 F6F-5N Bu93879 del. USN at NAS North Island NAS CA 2.7.45 F6F-5 Normandie Iron and Metal Co .59 (ex USN disposals, NAS North Island CA: TT 434 hrs) N4994V Edward T. Maloney/ Air Museum, Claremont CA .59/62 (displ. in orig. scheme NAVY/FASRON 4/879) The Air Museum, Ontario CA, later Chino CA 62/01 (rest. to fly at Ontario, flying by 69) dam. landing, Elsinore Dry Lake CA (repaired) .72 Air Museum/ Planes of Fame, Chino CA 12.12.73/05 (flies as USN 93879/31" ) midair collision with Cessna 182H near Parker AZ, Cessna crashed, F6F landed safely (repaired) 11.1.03 crashed dest. struck power lines along highway near Monterey TN (Art Vance k) 8.10.05 _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-11955 F6F-5 Bu94203 N7865C Nicholas Parks, Hayward CA 64/70 Thomas W. Short, Harlingen TX 70 Mike Rettke/ Aerial Classics, Atlanta GA .70/72 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 73/18 (displ. as USN "94203 Minsi III") _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-11956 F6F-5N Bu94204 Normandie Iron and Metal Company .59 N4998V Ed Maloney/ The Air Museum, Claremont CA .59 Eddie Fisher, Kansas City KS .59/70 (stored unrest. at Air Museum, Ontario CA as "94204/FASRON 4/The Beguine" 67/70) Michael E. Coutches, Hayward CA 5.70/86 loan: Wagons to Wings Museum, San Jose CA 10.74/86 Robert L. Waltrip/ Lone Star Flight Museum, Houston TX, later Galveston TX 7.11.86/17 (rest. Hayward CA, ff 4.5.89 as USN "32", later USN blue 17) Erickson Aircraft Collection, Madras OR 18.10.17/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-12015 F6F-5K Bu94263 NAS Norfolk VA (stored) 65/70 USMC Museum, MCAS Quantico VA 76/01 (static rest. at MCAS Cherry Point NC 78) Cradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City NY 83/16 (loan, displ. as "94263/VMF-511/IM") _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-12104 F6F-5N Bu94352 Pacific Aviation Museum, Pearl Harbor HI 08/16 (salvaged hulk) _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-12137 F6F-5 Bu94385 N7861C Michael E. Coutches, Hayward CA 61 Tom O'Connor/ CAF, Victoria TX 9.61/66 (CofA issued 101.1.62) Henry L. Gardner/ CAF, Victoria TX 69/70 wheels-up landing, dest. by fire, Victoria TX 12.10.69 Michael E. Coutches/ American Aircraft Sales, Hayward CA (wreck) 24.8.71/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ A-12225 F6F-5N Bu94473 Ed Maloney/ The Air Museum, Ontario CA 67/70 F6F-5K (displ. in red drone scheme "473"; then stored) Ed Maloney/ The Air Museum, Chino CA 70/84 (rest. Chino 83/84 with parts Bu08831) N4964W Robert J. Pond/Planes of Fame East, Minneapolis-Flying Cloud MN .84/97 dam. nosed over landing, Chino CA (repaired) 19.5.84 Bob Pond/ Pond Warbirds LLC/ Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs CA 12.97/18 (flies as USN 58644/36")

_____________________________________________________________________________________ A-12236 F6F-5N Bu94484 Pacific Aviation Museum, Pearl Harbor HI 08/15 (salvaged hulk) _____________________________________________________________________________________ - F6F-5 Sea-Air-Space Museum, USS Intrepid, New York City NY 91/10 (displ. as "24803/39" on hangar deck) (note: SB2C, TBF & F6F on USS Intrepid are now confirmed as fibreglass replicas) _____________________________________________________________________________________ - F6F (to French Navy/ Aeronavale as 239) Peoples Army Museum, Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam: sections only 98 _____________________________________________________________________________________ - F6F-3K (to Uruguay Navy as .......) rep. stored awaiting displ., Montevideo 77 _____________________________________________________________________________________ ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

GRUMMAN F7F TIGERCAT |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| C.101 F7F-3 Bu80359 Rick Ropky, Indianapolis IN: rest. project 90 Steven Detch, Woodstock GA Bob Krajerik, Hamilton City CA (new owner, Louisiana: under rest. 00) Rick Flaherty, California City CA: rest. project 02 _____________________________________________________________________________________ C.115 F7F-3 Bu80373 N7654C Calvin J. Butler/ Butler Farm Air Service, Redmond OR (tanker #F18; later #18) 63/66 TBM Inc, Tulare CA (tanker #E63) 69/80 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL .80/18 (displ. as "80373/12") _____________________________________________________________________________________ C.116 F7F-3N Bu80374 NAS Litchfield Park AZ: open storage 56/58 Ace Smelting Inc, Phoenix AZ .58 N7629C Collins Air Service, Anchorage AK: CofA issued 4.6.58 Adventure Films Inc, Anchorage AK 1.6.60 Cal-Nat Airways Inc, Grass Valley CA 24.8.60/68 (conv. to fire tanker 15.6.64, 800 gallon belly tank, tanker #E62; later #E41) Sis Q Flying Service, Montague CA, later Santa Rosa CA (tanker #E41) .68/81 (retardant tank and tanker mods removed 10.81) USMC Museum, MCAS Quantico VA 28.10.81/91 (del. to MCAS Quantico, stored) Darryl Greenamyer/ ILOC Inc, Ocala FL and Ramona CA .91/00 (del. Quantico to Ramona CA .93 still in tanker paint scheme #E41, stored Ramona 93/06) Darryl Greenamyer/ Icarus Investments LLC, Tucson AZ 19.7.01/11 (moved by road from Ramona to Thermal CA early .07, parked on gear at Thermal by 11.07) James Slattery/ Aero Law Group/ Pissed Away N7629C LLC, Bellevue WA 8.2.11/14 (ferried Thermal to Chino 31.1.11, under rest. Chino 11/14, CofA renewed 13.11.14) Tigercat N7629C LLC, Wilmington DE 28.8.14/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________

C.117 F7F-3E Bu80375 USMC Museum, MCAS Quantico VA 76 F7F-3N Pima County Air Museum, Tucson AZ 10.87/88 (open storage, derelict unconv., "Marines") Bill Klaers & Allan Wojciak/ WestPac Restorations, Rialto CA 90/08 (long-term rest. to fly, Rialto CA, continued at Colorado Springs CO 11/13) N379AK James Slattery/ Aero Law Group/ Tigercat N379AK LLC, Bellevue WA 4.09/18 (ff Colorado Springs 7.6.13 as blue USN 375/JS _____________________________________________________________________________________ C.124 F7F-3N Bu80382 NAS Anacostia: retired USMC Museum, MCAS Quantico VA: stored 75 (trucked to USNAM via Norfolk VA .75) USNAM, NAS Pensacola FL .75/85 Yankee Air Force Museum, Willow Run MI 88/89 Planes of Fame, Chino CA .90/18 (displ. in orig. scheme "Marines/382") _____________________________________________________________________________________ C.132 F7F-3N Bu80390 NAS Litchfield Park AZ: storage: del. 4.49/58 F7F-3P N6129C Kreitzberg Aviation, Salem OR .58/59 Wayne B. Fowler, Shaw Island WA 26.5.59/60 Aero Enterprises, Elkhart IN .60/61 Johnson Flying Service, Missoula MT .61/63 (conv. to fire tanker .61 at Salem OR) Calvin J. Butler/ Butler Farm Air Service, Redmond OR (tanker #F16, later #16) 9.5.63/66 TBM Inc, Tulare CA (tanker #E62) 6.66/78 Harold Beal/ On Mark Aviation, Knoxville TN 11.78/81 N700F Preston Parish/ Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Kalamazoo MI 3.80 (N700FM) ntu: Air Training Inc, Knoxville TN 1.81 N700F Preston Parish/ Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Kalamazoo MI .81/09 (stored Knoxville TN 78/84, rest. 84/85: del. to Kalamazoo 3.85, flew as "80390/D3") Lewis Racing LLC, San Antonio TX 8.11.10/18 (flies in silver finish RL on tail) _____________________________________________________________________________________ C.139 F7F-3 Bu80397 N6177C S. V. Flying Service, Montague CA 63/64 Sis Q Flying Service, Montague CA, later Santa Rosa CA 64/74 (tanker #E31) crashed dest. while fire bombing Ukiah CA 31.8.74 _____________________________________________________________________________________ C.142 F7F-3 Bu80400 N7619C Dick Gordon, Santa Rosa CA 63/64 (tanker #E43) leased: Cal-Nat Airways, Grass Valley CA (#E43) .63 struck trees, crashed dest. while fire bombing, Truckee CA (pilot Lewis Leach k) 25.6.64 _____________________________________________________________________________________ C.146 F7F-3 Bu80404 N7626C Aero Ads Inc, CA 58/59 (sky-writing ops, allover red with white lightning strike trim, Aero Ads under wings) Cal-Nat Airways Inc, Grass Valley CA 62/69 (tanker #E42) Sis Q Flying Service, Santa Rosa CA (tanker #E42) .69/84 Macavia International Corp, Santa Rosa CA 6.85/86 (tanker #E42) Kermit Weeks/ Weeks Air Museum, Tamiami FL .86/99 (rest. as blue Marines VMF-531) dam. Tamiami, by Hurricane Andrew 24.8.92 (rest. to fly, Rialto CA .93/02) Kermit Weeks/ Fantasy of Flight, Polk City FL 99/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________

C.152 F7F-3N Bu80410 N7627C Cal-Nat Airways Inc, Grass Valley CA 62/69 gear folded landing, Grass Valley CA 31.8.62 Sis-Q Flying Service, Santa Rosa CA (wreck) .69/72 (wreck at Santa Rosa for parts recovery 72) Kermit Weeks/ Weeks Air Museum, Tamiami FL 88/89 (stored dism. Ocotillo Wells CA 88/89) USMCAM, MCAS Quantico VA 90/17 (rest. Rialto CA .90/91 as "Marines 80410") Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson AZ: loan .91/17 _____________________________________________________________________________________ C.154 F7F-3N Bu80412 N7628C Cal-Nat Airways Inc, Grass Valley CA 62/69 (tanker #E59) crashed landing gear-up, Grass Valley CA 7.6.66 Sis-Q Flying Service, Santa Rosa CA (wreck) .69/72 (wreck at Santa Rosa for spares recovery 72) Kermit Weeks/ Weeks Air Museum, Tamiami FL 88/90 (stored dism. Ocotillo Wells CA 88/89) Klaers Aviation, Rialto CA: dism. 91 Robert J. Pond/ Planes of Fame East, Minneapolis-Flying Cloud MN .91/94 N207F Robert J. Pond, Palm Springs CA 20.5.94/97 (rest. Chino CA .91/94, ff 13.7.94 as USN "BP7 King of the Cats") Bob Pond/ Pond Warbirds LLC/ Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs CA 12.97/18 (USCR and aircraft plate quote id "80411") _____________________________________________________________________________________ C.160 F7F-3 Bu80418 N7655C Fred J. Arnberg Inc, Yreka CA 61 crashed firebombing, near Sacramento CA 1.9.61 Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp, Bethpage NY 71 struck-off USCR 12.1.71 _____________________________________________________________________________________ C.167 F7F-3P Bu80425 N7235C Calvin J. Butler/ Butler Farm Air Service, Redmond OR (tanker #F17, later #17) .59/66 TBM Inc, Tulare CA (tanker #E64) 69/79 David C. Tallichet/ MARC, Chino CA .82/94 Combat Air Museum, Topeka KS: loan, del. 3.92/93 The Fighter Collection, Duxford UK: loan .94/98 (del. Topeka-Chino CA .94 for rest., ff 7.6.96, del. Chino-Reykjavik-Duxford 26-29.6.96 as "Marines 80425/WT4") Steven J. Hinton, Chino CA (op: TFC) 4.6.96/98 G-RUMT Patina Ltd/ The Fighter Collection, Duxford 6.4.98/06 (flew as "Marines 80425/WT4") (dep. Duxford 9.6.07 on del., arr. Chino CA 15.6.07) sold to USA, struck-off register 29.6.07 N909TC Joe Clark/ Avstar Inc, Seattle WA 10.7.07/18 (flies as "Marines 80425/WT4") _____________________________________________________________________________________ C.225 F7F-3 Bu80483 N6178C George F. Kreitzberg, Salem OR .58/64 Cal-Nat Airways, Grass Valley CA .64/66 (tanker #E43) struck trees during firebombing drop run, landed safely Ukiah CA 7.8.66 Sis-Q Flying Service, Santa Rosa CA 69/85 (tanker #E43) dam. in landing accident, Santa Rosa CA 21.5.75 Macavia International Corp, Santa Rosa CA 6.85/86 (tanker #E43) Kermit E. Weeks/ Weeks Air Museum, Tamiami FL 87/88 (stored Santa Rosa 86-88, CofA renewed 28.10.88) Lea Aviation (US) Inc, Tampa FL/ Duxford UK .88/93 op: Planesailing Air Displays, Duxford .88/93 (del. to Duxford 13.11.88, flew as "USN JW/483") Richard Bertea, Chino CA, later Corvallis OR 5.93/04 (del. Duxford-Ft. Wayne IN 5.93, del. to Chino 11.9.93, flies as "Marines 80483/RB14")

John T. Sessions/ FWF Ltd/ Historic Flight Foundation, Seattle WA 2.05/16 (complete rest. at Victoria BC 05/07, ff 14.7.07 as blue Marines 80483/MW483 Bad Kitty)

Comanche Maverick Air LLC, Houston TX 19.1.17/18 (del. from Seattle to Chino CA 1.17)

_____________________________________________________________________________________ C.236 F7F-3 Bu80494 N6179C Fred J. Arnberg Inc, Yreka CA 63/64 Sis-Q Flying Service, Montague CA, later Santa Rosa CA .64/74 (tanker #E23) dam. during landing, Santa Rosa CA 15.5.72 crashed dest. on takeoff, Rohnerville CA 26.9.74 _____________________________________________________________________________________ C.245 F7F-3P Bu80503 TBM Inc, Sequoia CA 60/80 (stored dism. unconv. in hut, Sequoia CA 73) Mike Bogue, Oakland CA: stored dism. 82/83 N800RW Robert L. Waltrip/ Lone Star Flight Museum, Houston TX, later Galveston TX 12.88/02 (rest. Fort Collins CO .88/89; flew as "Marines 80503/RW Big Bossman", wfu Glaveston .96 for museum displ.) Michael Brown/ Fury Ltd, Carson City NV .02/03 (ferried Glaveston-Ione CA for preparation for racing) Michael Brown/ Monique Ltd, Carson City NV 2.4.03 N805MB Monique Ltd, Carson City NV 25.6.03/09 (flies as gloss black Big Bossman/MB) Rod Lewis/ Lewis Aeronautical LLC, San Antonio TX 2.09/10 N747MX Lewis Racing LLC, San Antonio TX 8.11.10/18 (race #1 La Patrona) _____________________________________________________________________________________ C.261 F7F-3 Bu80525 N7238C Dick Gordon, Santa Rosa CA 63/64 leased: Cal-Nat Airways, Grass Valley CA .63 (tanker #E41) Sis-Q Flying Service, Santa Rosa CA 11.6.64/74 (tanker #E22) crashed dest. after take-off, Rohnerville CA 21.10.74 _____________________________________________________________________________________ C.268 F7F-3 Bu80532 N7195C George F. Kreitzberg, Salem OR 10.57/63 (del. Salem ex NAS Litchfield Park AZ 10.57, conv. to sprayer, ff Salem 10.8.58) Scotts Valley Flying Service, Etna CA: leased 2.7.60/63 (conv. to fire tanker 5.60) Sis-Q Flying Service, Santa Rosa CA .63/79 (tanker #E32, later #E40) Gary H. Flanders & Mike Bogue/ Power Pac Co, Oakland CA, later Ione CA 8.79/98 (rest., ff .80 as "Marines 80532/NI") Earl M. Bogue, Ione CA 2.12.98/00 (flew as "Marines 80532/NI") Belleview International Inc, Dover DE 3.8.00/07 (rest. to fly at Ione CA 01/04) Merle Maine Enterprises, Ontario OR 23.10.07/15 (rest. to fly continued at Ontario OR 09/12, painted in blue US Marines scheme) Merle H. Maine Estate auction at Ontario OR 17.8.13 (TT 2696 hrs, ready for FAA inspection for flight) Lawrence Classics LLC, Bentonville AR 30.11.15/18 (rest. completed Ontario 4.16, ready for delivery) _____________________________________________________________________________________ C.272 F7F-3 Bu80536 N7625C Fred J. Arnberg Inc, Yreka CA 27.2.62 (tanker #E22) crashed firebombing, near Callahan CA 24.9.62 _____________________________________________________________________________________

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GRUMMAN F8F BEARCAT |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| D-10 XF8F-1 Bu90446 NASM: Silver Hill MD: stored 52/76 F8F-1 Darryl G. Greenamyer, Van Nuys CA .76 F8F-1D (exchanged with NASM for D.1020/ N1111L) N99279 George Enhorning/ Wolcott Air Service, Wolcott CT 3.77/83 N14HP Howard E. Pardue/ Breckenridge Aviation Museum, Breckenridge TX 3.83/12 (flew as "Marines 14/P", race #14) badly dam. in runway collision with Corsair, Oshkosh WI 29.7.99 (rebuilt Breckenridge 01/02, ff .02 Marines 14/P) dam. tipped on nose landing, Breckenridge TX 25.6.02 crashed on takeoff, Breckenridge TX (Pardue k) 4.4.12 Texas Bearcats LLC, Dover DE 18.6.14/16 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-18 F8F-1 Bu90454 NAF Norman OK: inst. airframe 50/59 N6624C E. D. Weiner, Los Angeles CA .59 (CofA issued 24.3.59) N3351 E. D. Weiner, Los Angeles CA .59/63 Vernon D. Jarvis, Decatur IL .63 Richard E. Schreder, Bryan OH .63/66 N9G Gunther W. Balz, Kalamazoo MI .68/77 (race #1, later #7 Roto Finish Special, R Thai AF G) Preston Parish/ Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Kalamazoo MI 9.77/09 (flew as R Thai AF G", later "90454/3F8") dam. during forced landing near Columbia MO 26.5.95 (rebuild Kalamazoo MI completed .01, displ.) Jens Meyerhoff. Mesa AZ 4.09/18 (del. to Mesa AZ ex Kalamazoo 24.4.09) _____________________________________________________________________________________ - F8F-1 Bu93569 (to Armee de l'Air/ French AF as 93569) (to SVNAF as 93569) Na Trang AB, South Vietnam: displ. 68/70 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-205 F8F-1 Bu94956 (to Armee de lAir/ French AF as 94956) (to R Thai AF as Kh15-178/98) Code 4312 .55 (del. by air ex French storage Bien Hoa AB Vietnam) R Thai AF Museum, Don Muang AB, Bangkok 67/18 (displ. as "RTAF Kh15-178/98") _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-527 F8F-1 Bu95255 (to Armee de l'Air/ French AF as 95255) (to SVNAF as 95255) Tan Son Nhut AB, South Vietnam: displ. 63/87 J. Salis Aviation, La Ferte-Alais, France David G. Price/ Museum of Flying/ Liberty Aero Corp, Santa Monica CA .90/98 N65135 Liberty Aero Corp, Santa Monica CA 17.9.90/95 N41089 Vintage Wings Inc, Anchorage AK 22.9.94 Liberty Aero Corp/ Museum of Flying, Santa Monica CA 22.3.95/00 (rest. Santa Monica CA & Mojave CA 90/95, ff Mojave 19.5.95 as USN "95255/S204") Tony Banta, Livermore CA: del. ex Chino CA 23.9.00/02 N58204 Tony Banta/ Banta Aviation Corp, Livermore CA 02/06 Rod Lewis/ Lewis Aeronautical LLC/ Lewis Fighter Fleet LLC, San Antonio TX 2.10.06/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________

D-610 F8F-1 Bu95338 (to Armee de l'Air/ French AF as 95338) F8F-1P (to SVNAF as 95338) Tan Son Nhut AB, South Vietnam: displ. 63/87 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-628 F8F-1 Bu95356 N7247C Vernon D. Jarvis, Decatur IL 63 R. E. Schreder, Bryan OH .63/64 Ernest J. Saviano, Lombard IL 66/69 John J. Mark, Hales Corners WI 69 forced landing in swamp, crashed, Madison WI 26.4.69 Joe Tobul, Wexford PA (wreck) 82 N4752Y John J. Dowd, Syracuse KS 12.6.84/14 (rest. to fly, using parts from Bu95089 & Bu121470 both recov. by New England Air Museum from land fill site at NLAF Charlestown RI after crashes) Texas Bearcats LLC, Dover DE 24.4.14/18 (rest. to fly continues Breckenridge TX 12-17) to be op by Texas Flying Legends, Houston TX _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-641 F8F-1 Bu95369 (to Armee de l'Air/ French AF as 95369) (to SVNAF as 95369) Nha Trang AB, South Vietnam: displ. 63/87 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-739A G-58A NX1201V Gulf Oil Co: ff 23.7.47 Gulfhawk IV NL3025 (1 Gulf Oil Co/ Al Williams Gulfhawk 4th: del. 10.48/49 crashed, dest. by fire, New Bern NC 18.1.49 (paperwork to Pioneer Aero, Chino CA for rebuild of D.1081 which adopted id. D739A/N3025 .92) _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-779 F8F-1B Bu122095 (to R Thai AF as Kh15-43/94) 201 .51 displ. outside Government offices, Bangkok 65/87 Jean Salis Collection, La Ferte Alais, France .86/87 (shipped to France ex Thailand .87) Stephen Grey/ The Fighter Collection, Duxford .87/92 (arr. Duxford 6.88, stored dism. 88/92) G-BUCF The Fighter Collection, Duxford 18.2.92 Charles F. Nichols/ Yankee Air Corps, Chino CA .92 (arr. dism. Chino CA 4.92, rest. to fly 92/99) N2209 Charles Nichols/ Yanks Air Museum, Chino 24.8.93/98 Tom Wood/ Quality Leasing Co, Indianapolis IN .98/18 (rest. Chino CA, ff 2.99 as USN blue 122095) _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-804 F8F-1B Bu122120 (to R Thai AF as Kh15-81/95): BOC 10.11.52: wfu 8.61 Lop Buri AB, Thailand: gate guard 1234 Foundation for the Preservation & Development of Thai Aircraft/ Tango Squadron, Chiang Mai AB 91/18 (rest commenced Chiang Mai AB 93, shipped to USA 12.94 for rest. to fly by Grumman retirees; rest. under way 95/03) shipped to Thailand on completion, arr. U-Tapao AB, Thailand 5.03, ff 10.03, parked with u/s engine, ff next U-Tapao 10.12.07, flies as blue RTAF 1234) _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-862 F8F-1B Bu121488 (to Armee de l'Air/ French AF as 121488) (to SVNAF as 121488) Tan Son Nhut AB, South Vietnam: displ. as "484" 71 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-854 F8F-1B Bu121510 (to Armee de l'Air/ French AF as 121510) (to SVNAF as 121510) Bien Hoa AB, South Vietnam: displ. as "1510/G" 63/87 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-963 F8F-2 Bu121589 N5171V Christopher F. Christopher, Asbury Park NJ 58 Norwood R. Hanson, Bloomington IN .61/64 (flew as Last of The Red Hot Cats) N5555H Norwood R. Hanson, New Haven CT 65/67 dest. struck mountain, Spafford NY (Hanson k) 18.4.67 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-982 F8F-2P Bu121608 N7700C J. W. (Bill) Fornof, Houma LA 26.10.60/71

(purchased at San Antonio TX, rep. stored following frustrated sale to Cuba) crashed dest. during high speed low pass at airshow, NAS Quonset Point RI (Bill Fornof k) 5.6.71 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-988 F8F-2 Bu121614 N7957C Lloyd Nolen & Lefty Gardner/ Bearcat & Co/ Confederate Air Force, Mercedes TX .58/69 (purchased ex NAS Litchfield Park AZ price $805) landed wheels-up, Mercedes-Rebel Field TX 23.8.68 Confederate Air Force, Harlingen TX 73/87 crashed during forced landing near Harlingen TX 5.74 Stephen Grey/ The Fighter Collection, Duxford UK .87/91 (wreck trucked to Chino CA, stored dism.) Steve & John Hinton, John Maloney & Kevin Eldridge, Chino CA 92/08 (rest. commenced Chino 92, long-term rest. to fly, assembled in bare metal by 07) Rod Lewis, San Antonio TX .08 (rest. completed, ff Chino 6.5.09 in R Thai AF scheme) N747NF Rod Lewis/ Lewis Fighter Fleet, San Antonio TX 4.09/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-1020 F8F-2 Bu121646 N7699C Antelope Valley Aerial Surveys, Palmdale CA .59 N1111L Darryl G. Greenamyer, Mojave CA .61/75 (race #1 Conquest I) (piston engine speed record 483.041mph 16.8.69) Fighter Aircraft Museum, Mission Hills CA 2.6.75/76 NASM Store, Silver Hill MD .76/02 (displ. in yellow racing scheme "N1111L Buff) NASM, Udvar-Hazy Centre, Washington-Dulles 04/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-1053 F8F-2 Bu121679 N4992V Bud Marquis, Marysville CA 59/63 Larry Hamilton/ Hamilton Aircraft, Sonoma CA .63/64 gear collapse during landing, Monterey CA 19.2.64 Michael E. Coutches, Hayward CA 6.64 N818F Michael E. Coutches, Hayward CA .66/11 Bearcat F8F-2 LLC, Hayward CA 18.4.11/14 American Aircraft Sales LLC, Hayward CA 28.10.14/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D.1073 F8F-2 Bu121699 N7826C John W. Dorr, Orinda CA .58/64 William Fuller, Fort Worth TX 6.4.64/66 Shelby M. Kristler, Amarillo TX .66 crashed dest. Amarillo TX 13.8.66 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-1081 F8F-2 Bu121707 N1027B Kaman Aircraft Corp, CT c59/70 (unconv., used as wind machine) USMC Museum, MCAS Quantico VA .70/78 (trucked to Mojave c78 for rebuild by McDonnell Enterprises, for USMC Museum) A. Wally McDonnell, Mojave CA 16.4.80 Elmer F.Ward/ Pioneer Aero, Chino CA: dism. .81/92 (rebuild Chino CA 81/92, using parts D.1261; adopted id. Gulfhawk D.739A upon completion) N3025 (2 Elmer F. Ward/ Pioneer Aero, Chino CA 7.92/02 (ff Chino 27.7.92, flew as Gulfhawk 4th) crashed in forced landing, Oshkosh WI 2.8.93 (wreck stored Chino CA 93/00) Steven J. Hiunton, John Hinton & Kevin Eldridge, Chino CA 9.3.05/18 (rest. to fly Chino 10/12) _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-1084 F8F-2P Bu121710 Naval Training Station, Bainbridge MD NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL .64/16 (static rest. at Herlong FL 92/93, displ. at Pensacola as USN 121710/B100) _____________________________________________________________________________________

D-1088 F8F-2P Bu121714 N4995V Ed Maloney/ The Air Museum, Claremont CA 1.57/60 Ed Maloney/ The Air Museum, Ontario CA, later Chino CA: displ. as Navy T-105 60/72 N1YY Harold 'Bubba' Beal & Charles 'Chubb' Smith/ B & S Advertising Inc, Knoxville TN 3.10.72/77 N700H B & S Advertising Inc, Knoxville TN .77/81 N700HL B & S Advertising Inc, Knoxville TN 1.81/98 op: Stephen Grey/ The Fighter Collection, Duxford 6.81/98 (del. US to Geneva by John Cocker, arr. 3.6.81, flew as "121714/S-100") G-RUMM Patina Ltd/ The Fighter Collection, Duxford 20.3.98/18 (repainted .98 blue USN "121714/201/B") _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-1105 F8F-2 Bu121731 N1028B John Church/New Jersey Air Co, Hackensack NJ 59/63 Sky Service Inc, Linden NJ .63/64 N500B Chester F. Christopher, New Shewsbury NJ .66/68 N5005 Judsen S. Smith, Lebanon NJ .69 Michael A. Geren, Kansas City MO 11.2.70/71 (race #14; #66; #44) engine fire during race, crashed and dest., San Diego-Brown Field CA (Geren k) 18.7.71 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-1122 F8F-2 Bu121748 N1029B Bob Meyers .58 John Church/ New Jersey Air Co, Hackensack NJ 59/63 Michael E. Coutches, Hayward CA .63/64 N618F Michael E. Coutches, Hayward CA 67 Stanley M. Kurzet, Covina CA (race #7) .69/75 N200N John Gury, St Louis MO .75/79 Harold Beal & Charles Smith, Knoxville TN .79 Don Whittington/ Whittington Bros/ World Jet Inc, Fort Lauderdale FL .79/97 (del. Ft Collins CO 2.80 for storage 80/97) George Perez/ Sonoma Valley Aircraft, Petaluma CA 10.97/99 Rene Bouverat/ Air B Aviation, Marnaz, France .97/00 (del. Ft Collins to Ione CA10.97 for rest., ff 28.9.99 Ione CA in Aeronavale scheme, shipped from Houston TX 11.99, arr. Le Havre 24.12.99, towed to airport, flown to Chambery) F-AZRJ Air B Aviation, Annemasse 1.3.00/04 (flies as Aeronavale "121748/P") Ray Dieckman, Cincinnati OH & Chino CA .04/05 N224RD Ray Dieckman, Cincinnati OH 7.7.05/06 Worldwide Jet Management, Missoula MT 24.7.06/07 Chino Warbirds Inc, Chino CA 27.11.07/08 (flies as Marines 121748/224/D) N1DF Chino Warbirds Inc/ Comanche Warbirds Inc, Houston TX 4.08/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-1125 F8F-2 Bu121751 N9885C William M. Stead, Reno NV 63/66 (race #80 Smirnoff) Moseley Aviation Inc, Tolleson AZ 66/68 I. N. "Junior" Burchinall, Paris TX 69/72 Mike Smith, Johnson KS: del. 11.72/76 (flew as 121751/417, race #41 Lois Jean) Harold Bubba Beal & Charles H. Chubb Smith/ Roy N. Lotspeich Publishing, Knoxville TN 11.6.76/80 crashed dest., Commerce GA (Smith k) 18.6.80 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-1126 F8F-2 Bu121752 N7827C John W. Dorr, Orinda CA .58/64 Thomas P. Mathews, Monterey CA .64/68 (race #10 Tom's Cat) Walter E. Ohlrich, Norfolk VA .68/72 (race #10 Miss Priss, Tonopah Queen) John Herlihy, Montara CA .72/73

(race #8 Sweet Pea) N2YY Harold Beal, Knoxville TN .73/75 N800H Harold Beal & Charles Smith/ B & S Advertising Knoxville TN (race #8 Precious Bear) .75/77 Whittington Brothers Inc/ World Jet Inc, West Palm Beach FL (race #8 Bearcat Bill) .77/95 Doug W. Arnold/ Warbirds of GB Ltd, Biggin Hill .90/92 (shipped to UK, arr. Felixstowe Docks 12.90; towed on wheels to Ispwich Airport 30.12.90, flown to Biggin Hill 30.12.90; stored Bournemouth, del. Bournemouth-Lelystad, Netherlands 23.11.92 for further storage) Iron Baron Corp, Dover DE 5.94/95 The Fighter Collection, Duxford UK .95/98 (del. Duxford ex storage Lelystad 25.10.95, flies as USN "106/A") Bill Anders/ Talon Investments, Eugene OR 3.98/99 (flown to Le Havre, then shipped USA 6.98, flies as USN "106/A Wampus Cat") Bill Anders/ Heritage Flight Museum, Eastsound WA 15.4.99/05 John T. Sessions/ FWF Ltd/ John Sessions Historic Aircraft Foundation, Seattle WA 7.9.06/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-1148 F8F-2 Bu122619 N7958C Lloyd Nolen & Lefty Gardner/ Bearcat & Co, Mercedes TX .58/63 (purchased ex NAS Litchfield Park AZ $805) not del., open storage NAS Litchfield Park .58/63 T. A. Underwood, Buckeye AZ .63 Frank Williams, Port Arthur TX .63 Larry Hamilton/ Hamilton Aircraft, Sonoma CA .63/65 Aviation Amazement-Amusement Inc/ Confederate Air Force, Oklahoma City OK .66/67 Gardner Flyers/ Confederate AF, Brownwood TX .68/72 Max Hoffman c72 Ken Boomhower c72 Harold Beal & Charles Smith, Knoxville TN .73/75 N700F Harold Beal, Knoxville TN .75/78 Whittington Brothers Inc, Fort Lauderdale FL .78/79 N14WB Don Whittington/ World Jet Inc, Ft Lauderdale FL 9.79/98 EAA Aviation Foundation, Oshkosh WI: loan .80/98 (static displ. EAA Museum, Oshkosh 80/98 as USN "122619 Denver/P-14") Yesterday Museum Inc, Fort Lauderdale FL 10.98/99 (del. Oshkosh-Fort Lauderdale late 98) World Jet Inc, Fort Lauderdale FL 2.9.99/02 Ron Buccarelli/ Lake Air Inc, Ft Lauderdale FL 18.6.02/06 Provenance Fighter Sales, Murrieta-French Valley Airport CA 7.07 Rod Lewis/ Lewis Aeronautical LLC/ Lewis Fighter Fleet, San Antonio TX 23.1.08/18 (flies as Navy Denver 122619/23 Tempus Fugit II) _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-1162 F8F-2 Bu121776 N1030B Kaman Aircraft Corp, Bloomfield CT 22.1.60/70 (no civil conv: used as a wind machine) USMC Museum, MCAS Quantico VA: stored .70/96 H. Wells: reg. candidate 30.4.96 N68RW Air SRV Inc/ Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston TX 4.6.96/10 (rest. commenced Galveston .96/98, trucked to Milton FL 9.98 for completion, ff Milton 4.03, del. to Galveston 30.4.03) (repainted 05 at Spring TX as Blue Angels #1) John OConnor/ BA1945 LLC, Wilmington DE 23.5.11/18 (flies as blue US Navy Blue Angels #1) _____________________________________________________________________________________

D-1170 F8F-2 Bu122629 N1031B crashed Valparaiso IN .62 Earl Reinert/ Victory Air Museum, Mundelein IL: wreck 68 (stored Valparaiso IN, later Mundelein IL 62/68) N777L Lyle T. Shelton, Granada Hills CA, later Bakersfield CA .68/06 (rebuilt Long Beach CA, Wright R-3350, ff 9.69; mod. racer #70 The Able Cat, from 9.72 #77 Phoenix , from 9.77 #77 Spirit of 77; from 9.80 #77 Rare Bear; world piston eng. speed record 528 mph 21.8.89) minor dam. forced landing., Reno NV (repaired) 9.92 Rod Lewis/ Lewis Aeronautical LLC/ Lewis Racing, San Antonio TX (race #77 Rare Bear) .06/16 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-1181 F8F-2P Bu121787 N6821D M. W. Fairbrother, Rosemount MN .63/66 N148F John Church/ New Jersey Air Co, Hackensack NJ, later Carmel CA (race #11) .66/68 Walter (Budd) Fountain/ Hawke Dusters, Modesto CA (race #99, later #24) 13.1.69/73 engine fire during race, crashed and dest., Mojave CA (Fountain k) 20.10.73 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-1190 F8F-2 Bu122637 N1033B William Johnson, Miami FL .63/65 John Church/ New Jersey Air Co, Hackensack NJ .66/68 Sherman Cooper, Merced CA .68/71 John Church, Hackensack NJ .71/73 N198F John Gury, St Louis MO .73/80 (flew as USN "122637C98"; race #99, #11, #98) John Herlihy, Montara CA .80 Cecil H. Harp, Canby OR .81/84 Thomas Friedkin/ Cinema Air Inc, Calsbad CA, later Chino Warbirds Inc, Chino CA 5.84/08 (flies as USN "122637/98/F") N8TF Tom Friedkin/ Chino Warbirds Inc/ Comanche Warbirds Inc, Houston TX 7.08/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D.1201 F8F-2 Bu122648 N1032B J. W. (Bill) Fornof, Houma LA 20.8.59/63 struck-off USCR 8.11.63 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-1227 F8F-2 Bu122674 N7825C E. D. Weiner, Los Angeles CA .58 Leo J. Demers, Aurora OR 63 Larry Hamilton/ Hamilton Aircraft, Sonoma CA .63/64 Richard S. Tobey, Newport Beach CA 66 Paul D. Finefrock, Hobart OK 69 Gary R. Levitz, Long Beach CA & Avalon TX .69/72 Confederate Air Force, Harlingen/Midland TX 8.2.72/90 nn Commemorative Air Force, Midland TX 90/18 dam. forced landing near Harlingen TX while on del. flight ex Dallas TX .72 (repaired, flew as USN "A/102") overturned during forced landing off-airport due fuel exhaustion, Riviera TX 19.4.74 (basic repairs, ferried to Chino CA .84 for long-term rest., ff Chino 17.12.91, flies as "122674/S201", based Camarillo CA 91/07) _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-1258 F8F-2 Bu122705 N4989V La Mesa-Spring Valley School, La Mesa CA 17.4.58/63 struck-off USCR 31.12.63 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-1261 F8F-2 Bu122708 N7701C Christopher F. Christopher, Asbury Park NJ 58 Rudolph Paslaski, Detroit MI 63/64 Michael J. Devanny, Cincinnati OH 66 Ronald E. Reynolds, Norwalk CT 69/72 Jack M. Sliker, Wadley GA (race #4 Escape II) 73/75 crashed on landing, Flagstaff AZ (Sliker k) 16.9.75 Elmer F. Ward, Chino CA (wreck) 85/96

(parts used in rebuild of D.1081, Chino CA) struck-off USCR 6.6.96 _____________________________________________________________________________________ D-1262 G-58B N700A Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp: ff 7.1.50/59 Red Ship (op. by Roger Wolfe Kahn, Grumman field rep.) Cornell Aeronautical Laboratories, Buffalo NY 6.59/66 William Ross, Elk Grove Village IL J. W. (Bill) Fornof, Houma LA 69/77 Doug Champlin/ Champlin Fighter Museum, Mesa AZ .81/84 Robert J. Pond/ Planes of Fame East, Eden Prairie MN 86/98 Bob Pond/ Pond Warbirds LLC/ Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs CA 98/18 (flies as USN "BP Bob's Bear") _____________________________________________________________________________________ - F8F-1 (to R Thai AF as ......) Code 342 Takhli AB, Nakhon-Sawan, Thailand: gate guard 67/87 Crown Prince Maha/ Tango Squadron, Takhli AB: open storage, RTAF, complete except engine 02/04 (prev. rep. as D.614/Bu95342 but this was stricken by US Navy 5.49 due to accident) _____________________________________________________________________________________ - F8F-1 (to R Thai AF as .......) Takhli AB, Nakhon-Sawan, Thailand: gate guard 67/88 (displ. as RTAF "4000", later "43104") (noted in town near Takhli AB 8.89, noted 2.04 Tango Squadron storage Takhli 104 on tail) _____________________________________________________________________________________ ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

GRUMMAN AF-2 GUARDIAN |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 2 AF-2S Bu123088 N3143G reg. (CofA issued 2.2.61) Aero Union Corp, Anderson CA, later Chico CA 6.62/03 (conv. to fire tanker, but did not enter service) wfu open storage engineless Chico 77/02, parked on grass, wings folded) (advertised for sale by Aero Union 7.03, dism. ready for rest. to airworthy) Aero-Trans Corp, Ocala FL 06/09 Airstation Inc, Arlington WA 18.3.11/14 (rep. stayed at Chico with Chico Air Museum) reg expired 31.3.14, struck-off USCR 6.10.17 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 14 AF-2S Bu123100 N3144G (2 Aero Union Corp, Anderson CA, later Chico CA .62/84 (tanker #E30) (flew 74/78 as blue "Navy 123100/SK-30") NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 84/18 (displ. as "Navy 123100/SK-30") _____________________________________________________________________________________ 242 AF-2S Bu126731 N9993Z Bert Ferganchick, Avondale AZ 63 Aero Union Corp, Chico CA 66/88 (stored unconv. Chico 66/88, orig USN markings) Confederate Air Force (Arizona Wing), Mesa AZ 8.88/18 (stored unrest. Mesa AZ 92/96, rest. 97 flew as "Navy 126731/SM/10", then static displ. CAF Mesa 00/17) _____________________________________________________________________________________

270 AF-2S Bu126759 N3144G (1 open storage Tulare CA, unconv., USN markings. .59 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 296 AF-2S Bu126792 N9995Z Bert Ferganchick, Avondale AZ 63 Aero Union Corp, Chico CA (tanker #E21) 66/77 EAA Aviation Foundation Inc, Oshkosh WI 84/86 Jimmy Leeward/ Leeward Air Ranch/ Bahia Oaks Inc, Ocala FL .87/09 (CofA renewed 27.4.87, flies as "Navy 126792") Aero-Trans Corp, Ocala FL 11/16 Skyler C. Burchinall, Brookston TX 29.6.17/18 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 321 AF-2S Bu129233 N9994Z Bert Ferganchick, Avondale AZ 63 Aero Union Corp, Chico CA 66/91 (open storage unconv. Chico 66/88 "Akron 155", under rest. Chico .90 as "N9995Z/#E21") Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson AZ .91/17 (displ. as Aero Union tanker "N9995Z #E21") _____________________________________________________________________________________ ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

GRUMMAN TBM/TBF AVENGER |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 2707 TBF-1 Bu0601 NX60782 Wright Aeronautical Corp, Caldwell NJ .46 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 2734 TBF-1C Bu0628 ditched Lake Michigan, off carrier USS Sable 3.7.43 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 92/02 (recov. from Lake Michigan by NMNA; under static rest. NAS Pensacola 97) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 2781 TBF-1C Bu01747 ditched Lake Michigan, off carrier USS Wolverine 11.6.43 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL .91/14 (recov. from Lake Michigan .91, US Navy 20) Bob Pond/ Planes of Fame East: loan for rest. .96/97 Deland NAS Museum, Deland FL: loan for rest. 04/17 (displ. while under static rest., completed 2017 displ. as blue US Navy 20) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 4010 TBF-1C Bu05954 ditched Lake Michigan, off carrier USS Wolverine 12.43 (T-14 recov. from Lake Michigan .88) Harland Avezzie, Westfield MA .88/05 N5954A Harland Avezzie/ Indiana Museum of Military History, Indianapolis IN: reg. candidate 21.9.92 (rest. to fly at owners home Westfield MA 91/05) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 4045 TBF-1C Bu05997 MGM Studios, Culver City CA Ed Maloney/ The Air Museum, Claremont CA 64/72 David C. Tallichet/ MARC, Chino CA .72/82 Charles F. Nichols/ Yankee Air Corps/ Yanks Air Museum, Chino CA 83/18 (stored unrest. Chino in orig. Navy scheme) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 4968 TBF-1C Bu24085 (to RNFAA as FN859) 8.6.43/45 Tarpon returned to US Navy at NAS Norfolk VA 2.7.45 TBF-1C NASM, Silver Hill MD: stored 65/10 (stored complete, wings folded) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5219 TBF-1C Bu24336 (to RNZAF as NZ2504, INST182) .43/59 Mk. II Te Rapa AB, Hamilton NZ: gate guard 7.59/78 RNZAF Museum, Wigram AB .78/18

(rest. to taxy condition 6.79, engine runs 81, displ. as NZ2504, later "NZ2521") _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5220 TBF-1C Bu24337 (to RNZAF as NZ2505): shipped to NZ 9.43/59 Mk. II Bennett Aviation, Te Kuiti: open storage 9.59/61 childrens playground, Opunake Beach NZ 60/72 Ross Macpherson & John Regan, Wellington .72/76 Silverstream Railway & Vintage Transport Museum, Hutt River, Wellington .76/89 (rest., displ. as RNZAF "NZ2518") RNZAF Museum, Wigram AB: stored .85/99 Gisborne Aviation Preservation Society, Gisborne .99/18 Classic Flyers, Tauranga: 5 year loan .14/18 (rest. at Tauranga to ground-run condition, hydraulic wing folding operational, dorsal turret restored with replica machine gun) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5625 TBF-1C Bu47859 (to RNZAF as NZ2527): del. 1.44/59 Mk. II Bennett Aviation Ltd, Te Kuiti 9.59/61 Barr Brothers Ltd, Auckland-Ardmore 59 (planned conv. for target-towing to be operated on contract to the RNZAF: civil certification refused) ZK-CBO Barr Brothers Ltd, Auckland-Ardmore 18.3.62/63 (crop sprayer mods., vandalised, wfu Ardmore 3.63, derelict by 64) to playground, Kuirau Park, Rotorua 10.64/71 Museum of Transport & Technology, Auckland 74/18 Confederate Air Force (NZ Wing), Auckland-Dairy Flat: loan for static displ. .81/95 (towed by road back to MoTaT c96, under rest. 08/13) _____________________