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Bureau #: 121748
Construction #: D.1122
Civil Registration:
  N1029B
  N618F
  N200N
  F-AZRJ
Model: F8F-2
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2005
   History:
Delivered to U.S. Navy as 121748.
- BOC: Sept. 20, 1948.
- SOC: Jan. 1, 1957.
Bob Meyers, 1958.
- Registered as N1029B.
John Church/New Jersey Air Co, Hackensack, NJ, circa 1959-1963.
Michael E. Coutches, Hayward, CA, 1963-1967.
- Registered as N618F, 1967.
Stanley M. Krazet, Covina, CA, 1969-1975.
- Flew as race #7.
John Gury, St. Louis, MO, 1975-1979.
- Registered as N200N.
Harold Beal & Charles Smith, Knoxville, TN, 1979.
Don Whittington/Whittington Brothers/World Jet Inc, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1979-1997.
- Flown to Ft. Collins, CO & stored, Feb. 1980-1997.
René Bouverat/Air B Aviation, Marnaz, France, 1997-2000.
- Restoration started by Power Pac, Ione, CA.
- Restoration completed by Sanders Aviation.
- First flight on Sept. 28, 1999 by Georges Perez.
- Shipped to France, arrived Dec. 24, 1999.
Air B Aviation, Annemasse, France, Mar. 1, 2000-2002.
- Registered as F-AZRJ.
- Flown in French Armee de l'Air (Indochina) markings.
Ray Dieckman, Cincinnati, OH, July 2005.
- Registered as N224RD.

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):
Eric Janssonne.
Unknown.