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Grumman F4f/Fm Wildcat Grumman amphibian types: Duck, Goose, Widgeon, Albatross and the Columbia XJL-1 are covered in the Grumman Amphibians section of this website. Also included are civil models, Grumman Mallard and French SCAN.30 Widgeon. Latest updated 10 March 2021 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| GRUMMAN F4F/FM WILDCAT |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 656 • F4F-3 (for French Navy/Aeronavale: not del.) Martlet AL246 (diverted to RN Fleet Air Arm as AL246) Mk. I Loughborough College, Loughborough .45/61 (inst. airframe "Royal Navy AL246/M-2R") RNAS Yeovilton: arrived by road 27.4.61/63 Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton .63/21 (rest., displ. as “Royal Navy AL246”) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 754 • F4F-3 Bu3872 ditched Lake Michigan off carrier USS Wolverine 17.8.43 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL .91 (recov. from Lake Michigan by USNAM .91) Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum/ USS Yorktown Museum, Charleston SC: loan 94 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 97/21 (rest., displ. Pensacola from 97 as "3872/72-F-7") _____________________________________________________________________________________ 838 • F4F-3A Bu3956 ditched Lake Michigan off carrier USS Wolverine 5.2.44 (recov. from Lake Michigan by NMNA c91) NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 94/20 San Diego Aerospace Museum, San Diego CA .94 (loan, static rest. project) USS Yorktown Museum, Charleston SC 97/18 (loan, displ. on hangar deck as “3872/F-15”) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 851 • F4F-3A Bu3969 ditched Lake Michigan off carrier USS Sable 30.11.43 (recov. from Lake Michigan c87) NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 87/04 Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum/ USS Yorktown Museum, Charleston SC: loan 87/90 (static rest. by Grumman NY 92) NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL: suspended from roof 93/21 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 921 • F4F-3 Bu4039 dam. in action, Wake Island, Pacific (repaired) 12.8.41 ditched Lake Michigan off carrier USS Wolverine 21.7.43 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL .91/21 (recov. by NMNA .91; displ. NMNA Pensacola unrest. in underwater diorama as "F-3") _____________________________________________________________________________________ - • F4F-3 Bu11824 ditched Lake Michigan off training carrier NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 96/02 (recov. from Lake Michigan, stored unrest. NAS Pensacola 96) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 3523 • F4F-3 Bu11828 ditched Lake Michigan off training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine 23.11.42 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL .95/20 (recov. from Lake Michigan 27.9.95, "F-7"; stored unrest. NAS Pensacola 97) San Diego Aerospace Museum, San Diego CA .96/18 (loan, static rest. at SDAM 96/98 for display, completed, displ. as “30508/13”) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 3763 • F4F-4 Bu12068 VMF-214, forced landing 30 miles east of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal 14.3.43 Vilu War Museum, Honiara, Solomon Islands .73/10 (barged to Honiara .73, displ. as unrest. hulk) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 3809 • F4F-4 Bu12114 NAS Sand Point WA: retired, open storage 45/50 Edison Technical School/ Seattle Community College, White Centre, Seattle WA 55/68 (instructional airframe) USMC Museum, MCAS Quantico VA 9.68/06 (shipped Seattle-Quantico .68, stored: static rest. 6.75/78, displ. as "12114/2") National Museum of the USMC, MCAS Quantico VA: displ. at opening of new museum building 13.11.06/21 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5920 • F4F-3 Bu12260 ditched Lake Michigan off carrier USS Wolverine 1.5.44 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL .91 (recov. ex Lake Michigan 12.12.91 by A&T Recovery, very good condition "F-3") A & T Recovery Inc, Batavia IL 12.91 N12260 Jim Porter & Dick Hansen, Batavia IL 12.91/03 (rest. Batavia IL, ff 18.7.94 as "12260/F-3") Stephen Craig/ S. J. Craig Farms LLC, Lawrence KS 2.9.03/07 Rod Lewis/ Lewis Aeronautical LLC/ Lewis Fighter Fleet LLC, San Antonio TX 7.9.07/20 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5950 • F4F-3 Bu12290 ditched Lake Michigan off carrier USS Sable 8.6.44 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 97/08 (“F-3”: recov. from Lake Michigan 5.9.96; stored unrest. NAS Pensacola 97/08, arr. NAS North Island, San Diego 2.4.08) USS Midway Museum, San Diego CA .08/20 (static rest. NAS North Island, San Diego 08/11 prior to display on carrier) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5956 • F4F-3 Bu12296 ditched Lake Michigan, off carrier USS Sable 21.6.43 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL .91 (recov. ex Lake Michigan 1.12.91 by A&T Recovery, very good condition "F-1") A & T Recovery Inc, Batavia IL 12.91 N3210D A & T Recovery Inc: reg. candidate 12.91 David P. Kensler/ Warbird Aircraft Restoration & Salvage Inc, Waterford MI 12.91/96 (rest. Pontiac MI, ff 20.6.95 as "12296/F-1") John C. Dimmer, Tacoma WA .96/06 Museum of Flight, Seattle WA: loan, del. 22.4.04/06 Pacific Aviation Museum, Pearl Harbor HI 19.9.06/17 (displ. as blue US Navy “12287/F-1”) nn: Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum 18/21 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5957 • F4F-3 Bu12297 ditched Lake Michigan off carrier USS Sable 16.1.44 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 88/15 (recov. from Lake Michigan .88) Cradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City NY 88/21 (loan, static rest. completed by Grumman staff at Bethpage NY) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5980 • F4F-3 Bu12320 ditched Lake Michigan, off carrier USS Sable 31.3.44 N5254A NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 8.10.92/20 (recov. ex Lake Michigan, static rest. at Jacksonville FL 92 for NMNA) USMCM, MCAS El Toro CA: loan, displ. as "6" 93/97 (static rest .97 at duPage IL for displ. at Chicago Airport as memorial to "Butch" O'Hare) Chicago-O'Hare Terminal 2: loan, displ. as "15" .97/15 _____________________________________________________________________________________ - • FM-1 Bu14494 ditched Lake Michigan off carrier USS Sable 2.9.43 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 93/15 (recov. ex Lake Michigan .93) Valiant Air Command, Titusville FL: loan .94/15 (static rest. at Tico FL, displ. as "14994/F-7") _____________________________________________________________________________________ 401 • FM-1 Bu15392 inst. airframe, Tech School, Norman OK 47/49 NASM Store, Silver Hill MD: stored .49/73 (static rest. by Grumman Bethpage NY 74/75) NASM, Washington DC: displ. as “E10" 75/15 _____________________________________________________________________________________ - • FM-1 Bu15633 (to RN Fleet Air Arm as JV482) Mk. V "6C": ditched Portmore Lough, Ireland 24.12.44 Ulster Aviation Society, Langford Lodge, County Antrim, later Long Kesh airfield, N Ireland 4.84/20 (recov. by chopper 30.4.84, displ. during long-term rest. painted as “JV482/S”) _____________________________________________________________________________________ - FM-1 Bu58846 (to RN Fleet Air Arm as JV348): to inst. airframe Mk. V Portsmouth Civil Defence School, Portsmouth 58/62 (fuselage on its undercarriage, less engine) RNAY Fleetlands: scrapped .63 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 1288 • FM-2 Bu16089 ditched Lake Michigan off training carrier 12.44 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL .93/21 (recov. from Lake Michigan by NMNA 12.93 "M-5"; stored unrest. NAS Pensacola 93/94, displ. Pensacola in Pacific Island diorama from 97) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 1360 • FM-2 Bu16161 ditched Lake Michigan off carrier USS Wolverine 12.4.45 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 96 (recov. from Lake Michigan 27.6.96; stored unrest. Pensacola 96/99 "CASU 24/35") traded by NMNA to Tallichet for Brewster SB2A .03 Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson AZ: loan .03/18 N4224W David C. Tallichet/ MARC, Chino CA: reg. 20.10.04/20 (displ. at Pima, unrest. but in good condition, fuse. on undercarriage, “CASU 24/35” on fuse, “18” on tail) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 1477 • FM-2 Bu16278 ditched Lake Michigan off training carrier 26.6.45 NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL .91/15 (recov. from Lake Michigan .91; static rest. Jacksonville FL, displ. Pensacola 96/97 as "7") NMNA, MCAS El Toro CA: loan, displ. "7" 98 NMNA, MCAS Miramar CA: loan, displ. "16278/7" 99/17 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 2020 • FM-2 Bu46867 displ. motor garage, Palwaukee IL 61/65 Earl Rheinert/ Victory Air Museum, Mundelein IL 68/76 (later stored dism. at Chino CA) N909WJ Don Whittington/ World Jet Inc, Ft Lauderdale FL2.8.89/91 (rest. Ft. Collins CO 89/90, del. to Chino CA .90) Douglas W. Arnold/ Warbirds of Great Britain Ltd, Biggin Hill 12.90/94 (shipped to UK, arr. Felixstowe Docks 12.90; towed on wheels to Ispwich Airport 30.12.90, flown to Biggin Hill 30.12.90; stored Bournemouth, del. Bournemouth-Lelystad, Netherlands 23.11.92: stored Lelystad 92/95) Iron Baron Corp, Dover DE: USCR 17.8.94/04 David Arnold/ Flying A Services, Earls Colne .96/04 (retired.
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