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"Kimberly Brooke"



       

Bureau #: 90446
Construction #: D.10
Civil Registration:
  N99279
  N14HP
Model(s):
  XF8F-1
  F8F-1
  F8F-1D
Name: Kimberly Brooke
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2003
  History:
National Air & Space Museum, 1952-1976.
- Stored at Silver Hill, MD.
Daryl G. Greenamyer, Van Nuys, CA, 1976.
- Exchanged with NASM for D.1020/N1111L.
George Enhorning/Wolcott Air Service, Wolcott, CT, Mar. 1977-1983.
- Registered as N99279.
Howard E. Purdue/Breckenridge Aviation Museum, Breckenridge, TX, Mar. 1983-2003.
- Registered as N14HP.
- Flown in Marines scheme as 14P, race #14.
- Badly damaged in runway collision with Corsair, Oshkosh, WI, July 9, 1999.
- Rebuilt, Breckenridge, TX, 2001-2002.
- First flight, 2002.
- Damaged when aircraft nosed over on landing, Breckenridge, TX, June 25, 2002.

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):
Chuck Gardner - Warbirds Resource Group, www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org, 2002
Jim Buckel.