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"Flying Nightmares"
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Bureau #: 124486 Construction #: ? Civil Registration: N52???V N49068 N494M Model: F4U-5NL Name: Flying Nightmares Status: Airworthy Last info: 2005 |
History: Robert Bean, Hereford, AZ, 1956 - Registered as N52??V. Delivered to FA Hondurena as FAH 606, Mar. 1956-1978. George Heaven & Jim Nettle/Hollywood Wings, Long Beach, CA, 1978. - Delivered from Tegucigalpa AB to Houston, TX, Dec. 1978. Robert L. Ferguson & Howard E. Pardue, Breckenridge, TX, 1978-1979. - Registered as N49068. Phil Dear, Jackson, MS, 1980-1984. McGhee Air Inc, McGhee, AZ, 1987. - Flew as 124453/NP-21/Annie Mo. Sherman Aircraft Sales, West Palm Beach, FL, 1988. Richard Bertea, Chino, CA, Sept. 1988-1992. - Flew as 124486/Marines/RB14. Mike George, Springfield, IL, Nov. 18, 1998-2005. - Registered as N494M. - Badly damaged during landing with engine fire, Springfield, IL, June 25, 2000. - Rebuilt to airworthy. - Flown as Flying Nightmares. |
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Source(s): Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989. Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003. Photo Source(s): Chuck Gardner - Warbirds Resource Group, www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org, 2002 Roling, Nigel - Pentavia Digital Imaging, http://website.lineone.net/~roling46/, 2002 Philip Makanna/Ghosts. |
