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Bureau #: 121714
Construction #: D.1088
Civil Registration:
  N4995V
  N1YY
  N700H
  N700HL
  G-RUMM
Model: F8F-2P
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2005
   History:
Delivered to U.S. Navy as 121714.
- BOC: circa 1945.
- SOC: circa 1955.
Ed Maloney/The Air Museum, Claremont, CA (later Chino, CA), 1957-1972.
- Registered as N4995V.
Harold "Bubba" Beal & Charles "Chubb" Smith/B & S Advertising Inc, Knoxville, TN, 1972-1998.
- Registered as N700H, 1977.
- Registered as N700HL, Jan. 1981.
- Operated by The Fighter Collection, Duxford, UK, June 3, 1981-1998.
- Delivered from U.S. to Geneva.
- Flown as VF-11/S-100.
Patina Ltd/The Fighter Collection, Duxford, Mar. 20, 1998-2005.
- Registered as G-RUMM.
- Repainted, now flies as USN/121714/201B.

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):
Caz Caswell.
Herve Champain.