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Bureau #: 121776
Construction #: D.1162
Civil Registration:
  N1030B
  N68RW
Model: F8F-2
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2005
   History:
Kaman Aircraft Corp, CT, 1959-1970.
- Registered as N1030B.
USMC Museum, MCAS Quantico, VA, 1976-1996.
- Stored.
H. Wells, Apr. 30, 1996.
Air SRV Inc/Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston, TX, May 14, 1996-2005.
- Registered as N68RW.
- Restoration started, Galveston, 96-98.
- Trucked to Milton FL for completion of restoration to airworthy, Sept. 1998.
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):
Trae Spencer.