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Bureau #: 121707 Construction #: D.1081 Civil Registration: N1027B N3025 Model: F8F-2 Name: None Status: Stored Last info: 2002 |
History: Delivered to U.S. Navy as 121707, 19??. - Assigned to VC-50. - Made wheels up landing at NAAS Ream Field, Apr. 19, 1949. -- Pilot OK. Kaman Aircraft Corp, CT, circa 1959-1970. - Registered as N1027B. - Unconverted, used as cross-wind machine. USMC Museum, MCAS Quantico, VA, 1970-1978. - Trucked to Mojave, circa 1978, for rebuild by McDonnell Enterprises for USMC Museum. A. Wally McDonnell, Mojave, CA, Apr. 16, 1980. Elmer F. Ward/Pioneer Aero, Chino, CA, 1981-2002. - Dismantled. - Rebuild at Chino, CA, 1985-1992. -- Using parts of 122708/D.1261. - Adopted ID of Gulfhawk/D.739A on copmpletion. - Registered as N3025, July 1992. - First flight, July 27, 1992. - Flew as Gulfhawk 4th. - Crashed during forced landing, Oshkosh, WI, Aug. 2, 1993. - Wreck stored, Chino, CA, 1993-2000. |