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FM-2 Wildcat/Bu. 47030

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.

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