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Bearcat/Bu. 121707



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.

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):
None.

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