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"Magnificent Obsession"
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Serial #: ? Construction #: 37703 (ISS23) Civil Registration: N40SF VH-HFA N57JB |
Model(s): Fury FB. 10 Name: Magnificent Obsession Status: Airworthy Last info: 2002 |
History:
Delivered to Iraqi AF as 253, November 21, 1949.
Ed Jurist & David C. Tallichet, Orlando, FL, 1979.
- Recovered from Iraq.
- Stored dismantled in Orlando, FL.
- Registered as N40SF.
Ed Jurist/Vintage Aircraft International, Nyack, NY, August 1979-1982.
Guido Zuccoli, Darwin, NT, 1981-1984.
- Shipped.
- First flight, April 1984.
Ted Allen, Proserpine, Queensland, Australia, January 25, 1984-1988.
- Registered as VH-HFA.
- ID incorrectly reported as WJ231.
- Flew as RAN/253/K/"Magnificent Obsession".
John MacGuire, Abilene, TX, November 1988.
- Shipped from Darwin.
John MacGuire/War Eagles Air Museum, Santa Teresa, NM, November 1988-2002.
- Registered as N57JB.
- Displayed as RAN/253/K/"Magnificent Obsession".
- Maintained airworthy.
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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