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Bureau #: 70185
Construction #: A-5597
Civil Registration:
  None
Model: F6F-5
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2006
   History:
Delivered to USN as 70185, 19??.
- Ditched in sea off Martha's Vineyard, MA, Apr. 3, 1945.
Hulk salvaged from sea, Dec. 3, 1993.
Quonset Air Museum, Quonset Point, RI, Dec. 1993-2004.
- Under restoration to airworthy.


Source(s):
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
 Photo Source(s):
Scott Rose/Warbirds Resource Group