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FM-2 Wildcat/Bu. 55585

Bureau #: 55585
Construction #: 3226
Civil Registration:
  N681S

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

History:
Delivered to the U.S. Navy as Bu. 55585.
Joe Speidel, Miami, FL, 1961.

• Registered as N681S.

Lloyd P. Nolan/Confederate Air Force, Mercedes, TX, May 1961-1963.
Gerald Martin/Confederate Air Force, Hereford, TX, 1966-1972.

• Flew as N681S in civil scheme, 1966-1970.

CAF/Commemorative Air Force, Harlingen/Midland, TX, Feb. 2, 1972-2003.

• Flown as USN/55585/F-15.
• Crashed and destroyed in fatal accident, Oct. 18, 2003.

Legacy Aviation Partners LLC, Wilmington, DE, 2008-2009.

• Registered as N585FM.

Conrad Huffstutler/Wild Warbirds, Uvalde, TX, 2009-2013.
Bygone Engineering Ltd, Charlbury, England, 2013-2016.
Wildcat WP Ltd, Charlbury, England, 2016-2019.

• Registered as G-WCME.
• Under restoration.

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