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86750 N12371 FM-2 Crashed Destroyed-Unknown BARNETT JACK B JR
86773 N1352N FM-2 Crashed 1960-Unknown Status ROBERTS BRUCE D
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it looks like the ex CAF FM-2 55585 moved again, there was a certificate issued 2 days ago to SKYWAY AERO INC
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry ... rtxt=585FM

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Matt Gunsch wrote:
it looks like the ex CAF FM-2 55585 moved again, there was a certificate issued 2 days ago to SKYWAY AERO INC
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry ... rtxt=585FM


All three Huff Air LLC airplanes should move to Skyway Aero.
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Your link to the picture of Mike Gillian's Wildcat is actually the one owned by Greg Shelton. Here's a picture of Gillian's at the Mt. Comfort show this year:


Yea I had that one and one more dorked up. That's what happens when you have to much cut and paste going on! I think it's all fixed now.

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Thanks for all the great info everyone. Too bad all this updated info can not be transferred over to the Warbird Registry!

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Pat Carry wrote:
Too bad all this updated info can not be transferred over to the Warbird Registry!

A suggestion...E-mail the link to this thread to Scott with a heading of "Widcat Data For Registry"..he'll
probably eventually get it. :wink:

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What ever happened to Doug Arnold's Wildcat, Bu 46867?

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I just found that Bu 12290 is now with the USS Midway Museum in San Diego and is currently in resatoration.

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3872 None F4F-3 Restored-Static National Naval Aviation Museum
3956 None F4F-3A Restored-Static USS Yorktown
3969 None F4F-3A Restored-Static Patriotts Point Naval & Maritime Museum
4039 None F4F-3 Displayed as Recovered National Naval Aviation Museum
11828 None F4F-3 Restored-Static San Diego Aerospace Museum
12068 None F4F-4 Displayed as Recovered War Museum, Honiara
12114 None F4F-4 Restored-Static USMC Museum
12296 N3210D F4F-3 Previous Flyer-Static Display PACIFIC AVIATION MUSEUM PEARL HARBOR
12297 None F4F-3 Restored-Static Cradle of Aviation Museum
12320 N5254A F4F-3 Restored-Static Terminal Two, O'hare International Airport
14994 None FM-1 Restored-Static Valiant Air Command
15392 None FM-1 Restored-Static NASM
16089 None FM-2 Restored-Static? National Naval Aviation Museum
16161 None FM-2 Displayed as Recovered Pima Air and Space Museum
16278 None FM-2 Restored-Static Flying Leathernecks Museum
74161 None FM-2 Restored-Static Admiral Nimitz Museum
74763 None FM-2 Display? Sonora Air Service?
86747 None FM-2 Restored-Static National Naval Aviation Museum
86754 N58918 FM-2 Restored-Static Tillamook Air Museum/ERICKSON GROUP LTD
AL246 None F4F-3 Restored-Static Fleet Air Arm Museum
JV482 None FM-1 Restoration Ulster Aviation Society


12068 @ Honiara is on Guadalcanal...I saw it two years ago and amazingly, the wings still pivot! Aircraft sits up on 55 gal. oil drums, prop
tips are bent so it must have bellied in. Aircraft is actually 20 miles or so West of Honiara at Vilu Museum along with a P-38, F6F, F4U, SBD and other partial wrecks.
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Which one is the F4F-3 that used to be displayed at MCAS El Toro?

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That would be Bu 16278 now at the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Mueum.

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Ah, got it. So that should be listed above as an F4F-3, not an FM-2. Or should it? It seems to be an FM-2 serial number, but the plane was definitely an F4F. Converted during restoration?

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EDIT: The plane pictured on the Flying Leatherneck web site does NOT look like the plane I saw at El Toro. Maybe we are talking about different planes.
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The former El Toro F4F-3 is the plane now at O'Hare.

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12260 N12260 F4F-3 Flying LEWIS AERONAUTICAL LLC
47030 N315E FM-2 Flying TRAINING SERVICES INC
47160 N551TC FM-2 Airworthy FM-2 LLC/Greg Shelton
55627 N47201 FM-2 Airworthy-Displayed POND WARBIRDS LLC
74560 N29FG FM-2 Flying CHINO WARBIRDS INC
86564 N4629V FM-2 Airworthy-Displayed NICHOLS CHARLES F TRUSTEE/Yanks Air Museum
86572 N86572 FM-2 Flying CAMP THOMAS L
86581 N1PP FM-2 Airworthy KALAMAZOO AVIATION HISTORY MUSEUM
86680 N11FE FM-2 Flying CARRIER DECK AVIATION INC
86690 N49JC FM-2 Airworthy-Displayed DIMMER JOHN C/Museum of Flight
86711 G-RUMW FM-2 Flying The Fighter Collection
86741 N222FM FM-2 Airworthy-Displayed WEEKS KERMIT A
86746 N6290C FM-2 Flying ANTIQUES AND CLASSICS
86777 N5HP FM-2 Flying PARDUE HOWARD E
86819 N5833 FM-2 Flying Commemorative Air Force
86956 N18P FM-2 Flying CAVANAUGH COLLECTION INC



I along with my crew currently have 47030 in about a thousand pieces at the Fighter Factory hangar. 90% of paint stripping is complete with some odd and ends left to do. Some small part painting going on along with the cockpit and fuel tank area painted.

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ronl
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This is a great list of airworthy and static Wildcats. Can those in the know update this list?

Thanks.

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