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    Airframe Family: Grumman F6F Hellcat
    Latest Model:F6F-5 Hellcat
    Last Military Serial:94203 USN
    Construction Number:A-11955
    Last Civil Registration:N7865C
    Compressed ID:Grumman F6F-5 sn 94203 USN cn A-119...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F6F-5.

    July 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 94203.

    From By 1962 to By 1970

    To Nicholas Parks, Hayward, CA with new c/r N7865C.

    By 1970

    To Thomas W. Short, Harlingen, TX keeping c/r N7865C.

    From 1970 to By 1972

    To Aerial Classics/Mike Rettke, Atlanta, GA keeping c/r N7865C.

    2 June 1971

    To US Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, FL keeping c/r N7865C.

    By 1972

    Placed on display with National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    3 March 1972

    Civil registration, N7865C, cancelled.

    Markings Applied: Minsi III, 94203

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
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    National Naval Aviation Museum
    Pacific Wrecks
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