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Bearcat/BuNo 121731

Bureau #: 121731
Construction #: D.1105
Civil Registration:
  N1028B
  N500B
  N5005
Model: F8F-2
Name: None
Status: Wrecked
Last info: 1971
   History:
John Church/New Jersey Air Co, Hackensack, NJ, Circa 1959-1963.
- Registered as N1028B.
Sky Service Inc, Linden, NJ, 1963-1964.
Chester F. Christopher, New Shewsbury, NJ, 1966-1968.
- Registered as N500B.
Judsen S. Smith, Lebanon, NJ, 1969.
- Registered as N5005.
Mike Geren, Kansas City, MO, 1970-1971.
- Flew as race #14, later #66, later #44.
- Crashed and destroyed, San Diego, CA, July 18, 1971.
- Geren 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):
None.