Speaking of wonky record keeping (as I just was in another thread) I just noticed that although the EAA Sport Aviation article I referred to earlier frequently identified the Bill Pryor - Jack Levine Panther (later owned by Art Wolk) as Bu. no.
123073, it later also identified it in the same article as Bu. no.
123072 - and of course in all of the photos, it was clearly stencilled as Bu. no.
123072...
However, after watching some of the aforementioned YouTube videos, I got curious about how many F9F aircraft are still listed on the FAA Registry and that led me to:
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=90729The former Jack Levine/Art Wolk Panther is "currently" (except that it has
expired) registered as
N90729 to Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum in Portage, MI and it is identifed as a "
Grumman-Pryor" (as in a Grumman design actually "built" or as the case may be "rebuilt" by Bill Pryor and others) model
F9F-2 with serial no. (i.e. ex-USN Bureau no.)
12078 - clearly a mistake!
On top of that, Joe Baugher has it "correctly" (AFAIK) as Bu. no.
123072 but as a model
F9F-3As I recall, one of the primary differences was that the F9F-2 had the Pratt J42, the -3 had the Allison J33, and the heavier -5 had the more powerful Pratt J48, and the -4 production run was passed over and essentially absorbed into the -5 production run.
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