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F6F HELLCAT/Bu. 08831
Grumman F6F Hellcat
Bureau #: 08831
Construction #: A-218
Civil Registration:
  None
Model(s):
  F6F-3 Hellcat
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2025
Delivered to the United States Navy as Bu. 08831.
- BOC: November 5, 1943.
- SOC: N/A
- Assigned to VF-6/USS Intrepid.
Chicago Vocational School, Chicago, IL, 1947-1969.
Earl Reinert/Victory Air Museum, Mundelein, IL, 1969-1979.
- Stored incomplete.
Ed Maloney/Planes Of Fame Museum, Chino, CA, 1979.
- Rear fuselage and tail used in rebuild of N4964W.
Charles F. Nichols/Yankee Air Corps, Chino, CA, 1979-1983.
Yanks Air Museum, Chino, CA, April 1983-2025.
- Center section used in rebuild of N100TF.
- Remainder stored.
- Stored sections used in an F6F airworthy rebuild based on Bu. 40467 by 2011.
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.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2025.
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