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Bureau #: 79593
Construction #:
  A-10738
Civil Registration:
  None
Model: F6F-5K
Name: None
Status: Static Display
Last info: 2002
  History:
Bradley Air Museum, Windsor Locks, CT, 1973.
- Recovered from storage, NAS China Lake, CA, 1973.
USS Alabama Memorial, Mobile, AL, 1976-1991.
- Displayed as F6F-3/41476.
USS Yorktown/Patriots Pt. Naval Museum, Mt Pleasant,SC, 1993-2002.
- Displayed as 79593/00.

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):
Bryan Hobcroft via Ron's Archive, ronsarchive.home.attbi.com, 2002