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CORSAIR/Bu. 88454

Vought Corsair Bu. 88454

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Bureau #: 88454
Construction #: 6163
Civil Registration:
  N4324
  Model: F2G-1 Corsair
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2011

History:
Delivered to US Navy as Bu. 88454, 1945.
- Assigned to Navy Air Test Center, Patuxent River, MD.
- Stored in USN storage container, NAS Norfolk, VA, circa 1948-1965.
-- Total airframe time when stored: 246 hours.
NASM, Washington DC, 1965.
Bradley Air Museum, Windsor Locks, CT, 1965-1966.
- Loaned to MCAS Museum, MCAS Quantico, VA, 1968-1972.
Walter E. Ohlrich, Norfolk, VA, 1973-1974.
- Registered as N4324.
- Intended be flown as Race #50.
- Civil conversion at Newport News, not completed.
USMC Museum, Quantico, VA, 1974.
Doug Champlin/Windward Aviation, Enid, OK, 1974.
USS Intrepid Museum, New York, NY, 1976.
- Ferried to NAS Norfolk from Enid, OK, Circa 1977.
Doug Champlin/Champlin Fighter Museum, Mesa, AZ, 1978-2000.
- Flown as NATC/454.
Museum Of Flight, Seattle, WA, November 2000-2011.
- Displayed at Champlin Fighter Museum, 2002-2003.
- Moved to Seattle, 2003.

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):
Chuck Gardner/Warbirds Resource Group
Unknown.
Mike Henniger.

Research Assistance:

Rob Mears

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