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Airframe Family:	Vought F4U/FG/AU Corsair / F2G Super Corsair
Latest Model:	F4U-5 Corsair
Last Military Serial:	0389 ARA
Last Civil Registration:	N43RW
Compressed ID:	Vought F4U-5 sn 0389 ARA cr N43RW
Latest Owner or Location:	Lone Star Flight Museum, Ellington Field, Houston, Texas

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Dates		Event
		Constructed as a F4U-5.
		Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 121881.
		Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armada de la Republica Argentina with s/n 0389.
2 January 1989		Photographer: Tom Tessier Notes: At Chino Airport, CA.
2 January 1989		Photographer: Tom Tessier Notes: At Chino Airport, CA.
By 1990		To Don Knapp, FL.
10 September 1993		To Texas Aviation Hall of Fame, Galveston, TX with new c/r N43RW.
		Based at Lone Star Flight Museum, Scholes Field, Galveston, TX. View the Location Dossier
		Restoration completed. Restored by Ezell Aviation in Breckenridge, TX.
		Markings Applied: Annie-Mo, RW/21 Painted in the colors of Annie Mo, a Corsair flown by Lt Guy Bordelon, the only Navy ace, night-fighter ace, and piston-driven ace of the Korean War.
24 April 2005		Photographer: Jason Knutson Notes: Photographed at Galveston, TX.
24 April 2005		Photographer: Jason Knutson Notes: Photographed at Galveston, TX.
April 2016		Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
April 2016		Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
2 December 2016		To Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston, TX keeping c/r N43RW.
16 August 2017		To Lone Star Flight Museum, Houston, TX keeping c/r N43RW.
		Based at Lone Star Flight Museum, Ellington Field, Houston, TX. View the Location Dossier

		This airframe dossier is based on unreviewed imported data. If you can verify the documented history or add to it with additional text and/or photos please feel free to do so by using the upload tool and the history editor.

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U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden

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Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America

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Terry Fletcher
Mike Henniger

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