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Bureau #: 122637
Construction #:
  D.1190
Civil Registration:
  N1033B
  N198F
Model: F8F-2
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2004
   History:
William Johnson, Miami, FL, 1963-1965.
- Registered as N1033B.
John Church/New Jersey Air Co, Hackensack, NJ, 1966-1968.
Sherman Cooper, Merced, CA, 1968-1971.
John Church, Hackensack, NJ, 1971-1973.
John Gury, St. Louis, MO, 1973-1980.
- Registered as N198F.
- Flew as USN "C98", later race #99, later #11, later #98.
John Herlihy, Montara, CA, 1980.
Cecil H. Harp, Canby, OR, 1981-1984.
Thomas Friedkin/Cinema Air Inc/Chino Warbirds Inc, Carlsbad, CA, May 1984-2004.
- Flown as USN/122637/C98.

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):
BDK.
Tony Andrews.