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    Airframe Family: Vought F4U/FG/AU Corsair / F2G Super Corsair
    Latest Model:F4U-5NL Corsair
    Last Military Serial:602 FAHo
    Last Civil Registration:N100CV
    Compressed ID:Vought F4U-5NL sn 602 FAHo cr N100C...
    Latest Owner or Location:Mid-America Air Museum, Liberal Municipal Airport, Liberal, Kansas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F4U-5NL.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 124447.

    March 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea Hondurena with s/n 602.

    To unknown owner with c/r NX100CV (F4U-5, 124447).
    Sale reported to a new owner in Quantico, VA.

    25 April 1970

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX100CV (F4U-5, 124447) issued.

    1978

    Recovered.
    Recovered from Honduras in pieces by George Heaven and Jim Nettle/Hollywood Wings, Long Beach CA.

    From 1981 to 1987

    Restored.
    Rebuilt at Chino, CA, with fabric-covered control surfaces.

    By 1984

    To Glen Hyde, Dallas, TX.

    7 January 1987

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX100CV (F4U-5, 124447) issued.

    21 January 1987

    First post-restoration Flight.
    Flown at Chino, CA.

    1988

    To IR3T Inc, Roanoke, TX and Pahrump, NV.

    1988

    Leased to USMC Museum.

    1988


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Chino Airport, California.

    20 July 1988

    Delivered to MCAS El Toro from Breckenridge, TX.

    1993

    Loaned to Mid-America Air Museum, Liberal Municipal Airport, Liberal, KS.
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    13 November 2003

    To unknown owner with c/r N100CV.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Quantico, VA.

    1 January 2007

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX100CV (F4U-5, 124447) issued.

    1 January 2007

    To unknown owner with c/r N100CV.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Quantico, VA.

    13 December 2012

    Civil registration, N100CV, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Quantico, VA.

    April 2016


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    April 2016


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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