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Bearcat/Bu. 121589


Bureau #: 121589
Construction #: D.963
Civil Registration:
  N5171V
  N5555H
Model: F8F-2
Name: None
Status: Destroyed
Last info: 1970
  History:
Christopher F. Christopher, Asbury Park, NJ, 1958.
- Registered as N5171V.
Norwood R. Hanson, Bloomington, IN, 1961-1964.
- Flew as "Last of the Red Hot Cats".
Norwood R. Hanson, New Haven, CT, 1965-1970.
- Registered as N5555H.
- Crashed into mountain, Scott, NY, destroyed, Apr. 18, 1967.
-- Hanson killed.

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):
Tom Hildreth.

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