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DAUNTLESS/Bu. 10518



Bureau #: 10518
Construction #: 2478
Civil Registration:
  N4864J
  Model:
  SBD-4
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2002

History:
Delivered to U.S. Navy as 10518.
- BOC: Feb. 11, 1943.
- SOC: MAr. 30, 1944.
- Allocated to NAS Roosevelt, Feb. 13, 1943.
- Transferred to NAS Norfolk, Feb. 15, 1943.
- Issued to VS-9/VB-9 on U.S.S. Essex, Feb. 21, 1943.
-- Combat veteran of Pacific theater.
MGM Studios, Culver City, CA, 19??.
- Fuselage only, rigged as wind machine.
The Air Museum, Ontario, CA, circa 1968.
Admiral Nimitz Museum, Fredericksburg, TX, 19??.
Bruce D. Roberts, New London Airport, PA, 1975.
- Loaned to Bradley Air Museum, Windsor Locks, CT.
Yanks Air Museum, Chino, CA, Apr. 1984-2002.
- Registered as N4864J.
- Restored using wings recovered from Guadalcanal by YAC.
- Airworthy but not flown.

Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Yanks Air Museum, www.yanksair.com/index.html.
Photo Source(s):
Tony Andrews


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