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Serial #: RCAF20380
Construction #:
  CCF4-171
Civil Registration:
  N7757
Model: Mk. IV
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2002
   History:
Delivered to Royal Canadian AF as 20380.
- BOC: Aug. 19, 1952.
- SOC: Oct. 12, 1967.
20th Century Fox Film Corp, Hollywood, CA, 1968-1971.
- Registered as N7757.
- Converted to Zero replica, Long Beach, CA, 1968.
- Used in movie Tora Tora Tora.
- Stored, Long Beach, Ca, 1969-1971.
- Sold at auction, Long Beach, CA, Feb. 1971.
Challenge Publications, Van Nuys, CA, Feb. 1971-1984.
- Flew as U3-757.
American Aeronautical Foundation, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1984-2002.
- Flown as Japanese Zero 77-57.

At Vandenberg Air Force Base, November 11, 1980.
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Federal Aviation Administration, www.faa.gov, Washington D.C., 2003.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
 Photo Source(s):
Brian Lockett - Goleta Air & Space Museum, http://www.air-and-space.com/home.htm, 2003.