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Bureau #: 08831
Construction #: A-218
Civil Registration:
  None
Model: F6F-3
Name: None
Status: Partial Airframe
Last info: 1980
   History:
Delivered to U.S. Navy.
- BOC: Nov. 5, 1943.
- 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 used in rebuild of N4964W.
- Center section to Charles F. Nichols/YAC, Chino, CA, 1980.
-- Used in rebuild of N100TF.
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.
 Photo Source(s):
None.