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Bureau #: 97330 Construction #: 9484 Civil Registration: N5222V N912CM Model: F4U-4 Name: None Status: Restoration Last info: 2001 |
History: Delivered to US Navy as 97330, 1945. - Assigned to Aerial Engineering Squadron, (AES) 12, at MCAS Quantico, VA, 19??. - Overhauled at NAS Quonset Point, 19??. - Assigned to VF-42/USS Saipan, March 6-June 8, 1951. - Overhauled at NAS Quonset Point, 19??. - Assigned to VF-42/USS Saipan, 19??. - Assigned to VF-43, NAS Cecil Field, (later NBAS Oceana and NAS Norfolk). - Assigned to Naval Air Reserve Training Command, (NART), NAS Olathe and NAS Grosse Ile, 19??. - Overhauled at NAS San Diego, 19??. - Assigned to Naval Air Reserve Training Command, (NART), NAS Olathe, 19??. - NAS Litchfield Park, AZ, July 1956. -- Open Storage. Robert Bean, Hereford, AZ, Nov. 1957-1973. - Planned sale to Honduran AF, not completed. - Registered as N5222V. - Stored unconverted, Moseley Field, Phoenix, AZ, 1959-1969. - Stored disassembled, Tucson, Airport, AZ, 1973. - Marked as USN/Olathe/N5. William Barnes, Lancaster, CA, 1975-1984. - Restored to airworthy. Shouling M. Barnes, Lancaster, CA, 1984. Jack A. Erickson/Erickson Air Crane Co, Medford, OR, 1985-1991. - Destroyed in crash. Chilquin, OR. Aug. 2, 1991. -- Pilot bailed out after engine caught fire after aircraft struck tree. Craig M. McBurney/Bootstrap Aircraft, Boca Raton, FL, 1993-2003. - Acquired wreckage. - Registration N912CM reserved. - Restoration to airworthy, CT, 1996-2003. |