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    Airframe Family: Grumman F4F/FM Wildcat
    Latest Model:FM-2 Wildcat
    Last Military Serial:46867 USN
    Construction Number:2020
    Last Civil Registration:N909WJ
    Compressed ID:General Motors Eastern Aircraft Div...
    Latest Owner or Location:Wildcat FM-2 Inc Trustee, Wilmington, DE

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a FM-2 by General Motors Eastern Aircraft Division at Baltimore, MD, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 46867.

    From 1961 to 1965

    Displayed at service station, Palwaukee, IL.

    From 1968 to 1976

    On display at Victory Air Museum, Mundelein, IL.

    To Victory Air Museum/Earl Reinert, Air Estates Inc Airport, Mundelein, IL.
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    From Circa 1986 to December 1990

    Restored.
    At Chino CA.

    2 August 1989

    To Don Whittington/World Jet Inc, Fort Lauderdale, FL with new c/r N909WJ.

    1 June 1990

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL909WJ (FM-2, 16203) issued.

    30 December 1990


    Photographer: Peter M. Garwood
    Notes: One winters day in 1990, a pair of ex-US Navy fighters were towed into Ipswich Airport by road, prepared by engineers, and flown to Biggin Hill by Squadron Leader Rod Dean. The new owner was the late Doug Arnold.

    30 December 1990


    Photographer: Peter M. Garwood

    30 December 1990

    Transported by ship. Delivered to Doug Arnold Collection, Britain.

    1991

    To Doug Arnold/Warbirds of GB Ltd, Biggin Hill, UK keeping c/r N909WJ.

    From November 1992 to 1995

    Stored at Lelystad, Netherlands.

    April 1997


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At MCAS El Toro, CA Open House

    20 November 1997

    To Iron Baron Corp, Dover, DE keeping c/r N909WJ.

    1 January 2001

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL909WJ (FM-2, 16203) issued.

    14 June 2007

    To Michael J. Gillian, Downers Grove, IL keeping c/r N909WJ.

    July 2007

    Based at Commemorative Air Force-Arizona Wing, Falcon Field, Phoenix, AZ.
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    26 July 2011

    27 July 2012


    Photographer: Massey Aerodrome FlickR
    Notes: At 2012 Oshkosh

    4 January 2016

    To Michael J. Gillian, Batavia, IL keeping c/r N909WJ.

    20 March 2017

    To Michael J. Gillian, Batavia, IL keeping c/r N909WJ.

    19 May 2018


    Photographer: Mike Fuller
    Notes: At Illinois Valley Regional Airport/KVYS

    6 June 2019

    To Walter C. Bowe Trustee, Sonoma, CA keeping c/r N909WJ.

    17 October 2019


    Photographer: larry smigla

    14 June 2021

    To Wildcat FM-2 Inc Trustee, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N909WJ.
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