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F4F Wildcat/Bu. 47160

Bureau #: 47160
Construction #: 2313
Civil Registration:
  N2876D
  N551TC

Model(s):
  FM-2 Wildcat
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2019

History:
Delivered to the US Navy as 47160 in 1944.

• Assigned to NAS Alameda and San Diego, with VJ-9 and VJ-12 Utility Squadrons.

Used as instructional airframe at Montana trade school, 1950-1956.
Sold to agricultural operator and converted to sprayer, 1956.
Western Aerial Contractors, Eugene, OR, 1963-1964.

• Registered as N2876D.

Robert J. Hartlaub, Summit, NJ, 1966-1969.
Air Sales Inc, Miami, FL, 1970.
Keith J. Mackey, Miami, FL, 1970-1972.

• Flew as USN 7.

Wings of Yesterday Flying Air Museum, Santa Fe, NM, 1977-1984.
John C. Hooper/Intracoastal Terminal, Inc, Harvey, LA, May 1984-1991.

• Registered as N551TC.

Robert L. Waltrip/Air SRV Inc/Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston, TX, Aug. 2, 1991-2006.

• Flown as USN 7/"Old Fang".

Greg Shelton/Greg Shelton Airshows, Collinsville, OK, 2006-2019.

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