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Bureau #: 97330 Construction #: 9484 Civil Registration: N5222V N912CM |
Model: F4U-4 Corsair Name: None Status: Restoration Last info: 2001 |
History:
Delivered to US Navy as Bu. 97330, 1945.
- Assigned to Aerial Engineering Squadron, (AES) 12, at MCAS Quantico, VA, 19??.
- Overhauled at NAS Quonset Point, 19??.
- Assigned to VF-42/USS Saipan, March 6-June 8, 1951.
- Overhauled at NAS Quonset Point, RI, 19??.
- Assigned to VF-42/USS Saipan, 19??.
- Assigned to VF-43, NAS Cecil Field, (later NBAS Oceana and NAS Norfolk).
- Assigned to Naval Air Reserve Training Command, (NART), NAS Olathe and NAS Grosse Ile, 19??.
- Overhauled at NAS San Diego, 19??.
- Assigned to Naval Air Reserve Training Command, (NART), NAS Olathe, 19??.
- NAS Litchfield Park, AZ, July 1956.
-- Open Storage.
Robert Bean, Hereford, AZ, November 1957-1973.
- Planned sale to Honduran AF, not completed.
- Registered as N5222V.
- Stored unconverted, Moseley Field, Phoenix, AZ, 1959-1969.
- Stored disassembled, Tucson, Airport, AZ, 1973.
- Marked as USN/Olathe/N5.
William Barnes, Lancaster, CA, 1975-1984.
- Restored to airworthy.
Shouling M. Barnes, Lancaster, CA, 1984.
Jack A. Erickson/Erickson Air Crane Co, Medford, OR, 1985-1991.
- Destroyed in crash. Chilquin, OR, August 2, 1991.
-- Pilot bailed out after engine caught fire after aircraft struck tree.
Craig M. McBurney/Bootstrap Aircraft, Boca Raton, FL, 1993-2003.
- Acquired wreckage.
- Registration N912CM reserved.
- Restoration to airworthy, CT, 1996-2003.
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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. Craig M. McBurney/Bootstrap Aircraft, 2003. |
Photo Source(s): Ron Olsen. Research Assistance: None |
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