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F6F HELLCAT/Bu. 78645
Grumman F6F Hellcat Bu. 78645
Bureau #: 78645
Construction #: A-9790
Civil Registration:
  N9265A
Model(s):
  F6F-5 Hellcat
Name: Death ‘N Destruction
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2023
Delivered to the United States Navy as Bu. 78645.
- BOC: N/A
- SOC: N/A
Charles F. Nichols/Yankee Air Corps, Chino, CA, March 1978-1983.
- Registered as N9265A.
Yanks Air Museum, Chino, CA, April 1978-2018.
- Certificate of airworthiness issued March 3, 1981.
- Flew as USN/78645/45.
- Maintained airworthy but not flown.
Ron Fagen/Fagen Fighters, Granite Falls, MN, March 2018-2023.
- Restored to airworthy at Fighter Rebuilders, Chino, CA, 2018-2021.
- First flight, January 3, 2021.
- Flown in blue scheme as 72534/115/Death ‘N Destruction.
Grumman F6F Hellcat Bu. 78645
Grumman F6F Hellcat Bu. 78645
Grumman F6F Hellcat Bu. 78645
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):
Rian Olsen Collection.
Chuck Gardner

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