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Serial #: BuNo 121646
Construction #:
  D.10
Civil Registration:
  N7699C
  N1111L
Model: F8F-2
Name: Buff
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2002
  History:
Antelope Valley Aerial Surveys, Palmdale, CA, 1959.
- Registered as N7699C.
Daryl G. Greenamyer, Van Nuys, CA, 1961-1975.
- Registered as N1111L
- Flown as Race #1/Conquest 1.
- Piston engine speed record on Aug. 16, 1969 at 483.041 mph.
- Exchanged with NASM for D.10/BuNo. 90446.
National Air & Space Museum, Silver Hill, MD, 1976-2004.
- Displayed at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center as N1111L/Buff.

Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Photo Source(s):
Michael O'Leary Collection.
Tony Andrews.