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Chuck Gardner
 Post subject: Which Wildcat is this?
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If it's an old picture it looks like Ken Spiva's that went to P-Cola eons ago.

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It is an old picture and why did the Navy need a (flying) Wildcat?

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Yup that's the one BuNo 86747 and they got Lenhardt's to. Lenhardt's cost them a R4D, Otter and a T-28. This one is hanging iun the museum.

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Chuck Gardner wrote:
It is an old picture and why did the Navy need a (flying) Wildcat?


they needed it so they could kill it and get it out of the air (its in conspiracy with the FAA/gov directive to ground all warbirds)

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I don't know why you're complaining..it's still in the air. 8)

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Steve Nelson wrote:
I don't know why you're complaining..it's still in the air. 8)

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vroom vroom :D

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I loved the NMNA when I visited three years ago, but I thought the museum was a bit Wildcat "heavy." I counted at least five in the collection:

- FM-2 hanging from the ceiling
- F4F-3 in pre-war colors
- F4F-3 from Lake Michigan displayed "as found" in a diorama
- F4F-? hanging in the WWII gallery
- FM-2 masquerading as a Marine F4F-3 in the Guadalcanal diorama (with some crude "weathering" that would get laughed out of any model contest)

Come to think of it, there were at least three SBDs there as well.

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Until the Lake Michigan "find" they only had the one Wildcat pictured.

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Hey, I'm not complaining...you can never have too many warbirds!

BTW, does anybody know the purpose of the canopy mod on the hanging FM-2?

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