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Bureau #: 90454
Construction #: D.18
Civil Registration:
  N6624C
  N3351
  N9G
Model: F8F-1
Name: None
Status: Display
Last info: 2002
  History:
NAF Norman, OK, 1950-1959.
- Used as instructional airframe.
Ed Weiner, Los Angeles, CA, 1959.
- Registered as N6624C.
Ed Weiner, Los Angeles, CA, 1959-1963.
- Registered as N3351.
Vernon D. Jarvis, Decatur, IL, 1963.
R.E. Schreder, Bryan, OH, 1963-1966.
Gunther W. Balz, Kalamazoo, MI, 1968-1977.
- Registered as N9G
- Flew as race #1, later race #7/Roto Finish Special.
Preston Parish/Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Kalamazoo, MI, 1978-2002.
- Flew as Royal Thai AF/G (later 90454/3F8).
- Damaged during forced landing, Columbia, MO, May 26, 1995.
- Rebuilt to airworthy, Kalamazoo, MI, 2001.



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):
Pat Carry.
Unknown.