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F4F Wildcat/Bu. 86690
Grumman F4F Wildcat
Bureau #: 86690
Construction #:
  5744
Civil Registration:
  N20HA
  N49JC
Model(s):
  FM-2 Wildcat
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2019
History:
Delivered to the U.S. Navy as Bu. 86690.
Don Underwood, Phoenix, AZ, 1956-1958.
  • Registered as N20HA.
  • Modified and used as sprayer.
S.S. Steele, Safford, AZ, 1963-1964.
James R. Freese, Fremont & Modesto, CA, 1966-1972.
Jack Lenhardt/Lenhardt Airpark, Hubbard, OR, 1977-1979.
  • Flew as Marines/2.
US Naval Air Museum, NAS Pensacola, FL, 1979-1990.
  • Displayed as 86690/2.
World Jet Inc, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Aug. 1993.
  • Registered as N70637.
Jeff Clyman/NA-50 Inc, New York, NY, Oct. 1993-1994.
  • Registered as N49JC.
John Dimmer, Tacoma, WA, 1995-2011.
  • Loaned to Olympic Flight Museum, Olympia Regional Airport, WA.
  • Loaned to Boeing Museum of Flight for use as pattern aircraft, 2006-2011.
Richard Shuttleworth Trustees/Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden, England, 2011-2016.
  • Registered as G-CHPN.
Thomas W. Harris, Leighton Buzzard, England, 2016-2019.
  • Registered as G-KINL.
  • Undergoing restoration to fly at Duxford.
Grumman F4F Wildcat
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Federal Aviation Administration, www.faa.gov, Washington D.C., 2002.
Stephen Rister's Warbird View, www.caprok.net/warbirds/fm-2.htm, 2002.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Brad Pilgrim.
Photo Source(s):
Bradley Pilgrim.
Olsen, Ron - Ron's Archive, ronsarchive.home.attbi.com, 2002

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