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    Airframe Family: Grumman F4F/FM Wildcat
    Latest Model:FM-2 Wildcat
    Last Military Serial:16161 USN
    Construction Number:1360
    Last Civil Registration:N4224W
    Compressed ID:General Motors Eastern Aircraft Div...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

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

    30 December 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 16161.

    Markings Applied: CASU 24/35, 18

    12 April 1945

    Crashed.
    Ditched in Lake Michigan off carrier USS Wolverine.

    By 1996

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola NAS, Pensacola, Florida, United States.
    Submerged wreck allocated to the museum.

    27 June 1996

    Recovered.
    Removed from Lake Michigan.

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    From By 1996 to By 1999

    Stored unrestored at Pensacola.

    20 October 2004

    To Military Aircraft Restoration Corp, Anaheim, CA with new c/r N4224W.

    In the inventory of Military Aircraft Restoration Corporation (MARC)/David Tallichet, Anaheim, CA.
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    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    Markings Applied: 35
    Displayed initially unrestored with the markings of Carrier Qualification Training Unit, Glenview, Illinois in 1945 still visible.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    19 October 2017


    Photographer: Johnny Comstedt
    Notes: Under restoration in Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, AZ, USA 19. October 2017

    15 March 2019

    To unknown owner with c/r N4224W.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Tucson, AZ.

    16 December 2019

    To unknown owner with c/r N4224W.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Tucson, AZ.

    25 November 2020


    Photographer: Richard Talley

    25 November 2020


    Photographer: Richard Talley
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Pima Air and Space Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Johnny Comstedt
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