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F8F BEARCAT/Bu 122619

Bureau #: 122619
Construction #: D.1148
Civil Registration:
  N7958C
  N700F
  N14WB
Model: F8F-2
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2003
   History:
Lloyd Nolen & Lefty Gardner/Bearcat & Co, Mercedes, TX, 1958-1963.
- Registered as N9758C.
- Purchased for $805 at NAS Litchfield Park, AZ.
- Not delivered, stored at NAS Litchfield Park, AZ, 1958-1963.
T.A. Underwood, Buckeye, AZ, 1963.
Frank Williams, Port Arthur, TX, 1963.
Larry Hamilton/Hamilton Aircraft, Sonoma, CA, 1963-1965.
Aviation Amazement-Amusement Inc/Confederate Air Force, Oklahoma City, OK, 1966-1967.
Gardner Flyers/Confederate Air Force, Brownwood, TX, 1968-1972.
Max Hoffman, circa 1972.
Ken Boomhower, Circa 1972.
Harold Beal & Charles Smith, Knoxville, TN, 1973-1975.
Harold Beal, Knoxville, TN, 1975-1978.
- Registered as N700F.
Whittington Brothers Inc, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 1978-1979.
Don Whittington/World Jet Inc, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Sept. 1979-1998.
- Registered as N14WB.
- Loaned to EAA Aviation Foundation, Oshkosh, WI, 1980-1998.
-- Displayed as USN, 122619/Denver/P-14.
Yesterday Museum Inc, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Oct. 1998-1999.
- Delivered from Oshkosh to Ft. Lauderdale, late 1998.
World Jet Inc, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Sept. 2, 1999-2002.

Circa 1974.
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, www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org, 2003
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