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FM-2 Wildcat/Bu. 47030
Grumman F4F Wildcat
Bureau #: 47030
Construction #: 2183
Civil Registration:
  N315E
Model(s):
  FM-2 Wildcat
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2019
History:
Delivered to the US Navy as 47030, April 14, 1944.
  • Assigned to NAS Terminal Island, San Pedro, CA, April 25 - June 1944.
  • Transferred to South Pacific, Espiritu Santo, July 23 - Oct. 1944.
  • Transferred to San Diego, CA, October 1944.
  • Assigned to VF-6 Operational Training Unit at NAS Sanford, FL, Dec. 1944 - July 1945.
  • Assigned to VF-97 at Pungo Naval Outer Landing Field, VA, July 1945.
  • Transferred to NAS Quonset Point, RI, August - Oct. 1945.
  • Stricken from records October 1945.
A.T. Whiteside, Jacksonville, FL, May 22, 1951-1952.
  • Registered as N1940M.
Richard Spano, Hagerstown, MD, February 29, 1952-1962
Alexis I. Dupont, Wilmington, DE, Dec. 1962-1972.
  • Registered as N315E in 1963.
Alexis I. Dupont/Colonial Flying Field Museum, Toughkenamon, PA, 1973-2009.
  • Flown as USN F-13.
Gerald Yagen/Military Aviation Museum, Virginia Beach, VA, April 2009-2019.
  • Restored to stock condition with original US Navy 1944 tri-color factory scheme, completed April 2011.
Grumman F4F Wildcat

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.
Federal Aviation Administration.
Photo Source(s):
Timothy Cox Photography.
Steve Tournay.

Research Assistance:
John Terrell
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