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F4F Wildcat/Bu. 46867

Bureau #: 46867
Construction #: 2020
Civil Registration:
  N909WJ

Model(s):
  FM-2 Wildcat
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2019

History:
Delivered to U.S. Navy as Bu. 46867.
Chicago Vocational High School, 1946-1961.
Displayed at service station, Palwaukee Airport, Wheeling, IL, 1961-1965.
Victory Air Museum, Mundelein, IL, 1968-1976.

• Dark blue fuselage with yellow wings, cowl and rudder; later repainted as Wake Island "211-F-11".

• Stored disassembled, Chino, CA.

Don Whittington/World Jet Inc, Fort Lauderdale, FL, August 2, 1989-1991.

• Registered as N909WJ.
• Rebuild to airworthy, Ft. Collins, CA, 1989-1990.
• Flown to Chino, CA, shipped to UK, December 30, 1990.

Doug Arnold/Warbirds of Great Britain Lt, Biggin Hill, 1989-1994.

• Delivered from Bournemouth to Lelystad, Ntetherlands, Nov. 23, 1992.
• Stored, 1992-1995.

Iron Baron Corp, Dover, DE, Aug. 17, 1994-2005.

• Stored, North Weald, England, 1997-2003.
• Shipped to US in 2003.

Bruce E. Graham, Irvine, CA, 2005-2007.
Michael Gillian, Aurora, IL, March 2007-2019.

At Chicago Vocational High School, 1951.

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