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Dates |
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Event |
1946 |
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Constructed as a F4U-4. |
26 April 1946 |
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Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 97388. |
30 April 1946 |
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Delivered to USN. |
From June 1946 to September 1947 |
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Assigned to NAS Tillamook, OR for storage. |
From October 1947 to February 1948 |
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Assigned to NAS Santa Ana, CA for storage. |
From March 1948 to September 1948 |
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To Aircraft pool, NAS San Diego, CA. |
October 1948 |
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Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 97388. |
From October 1948 to May 1949 |
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Transferred to (Marine Fighter Squadron 225 (VMF-225), MCAS Cherry Point, NC. |
Circa 1949 |
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Transferred to VMF-212.
Operated with markings: LD |
June 1950 |
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Aircraft data card has no information reference dates/locations. However, Squadron history shows them operating from Japan against targets in Korea. |
14 August 1950 |
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To Quonset Point, RI.
For Overhaul and Repair and Maintenance and Service. |
16 August 1950 |
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To Fleet Air Service Squadron 3, NAS Norfolk, VA. |
14 September 1950 |
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Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 97388. |
From 14 September 1950 to February 1952 |
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Transferred to Fighter Squadron 42 (VF-42), Carrier Air Group Six (CVG-6), NAS Jacksonville, FL. |
November 1950 |
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Base of operations changed.
NAS Jacksonville, FL. |
From May 1951 to 8 June 1951 |
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Base of operations changed.
Aboard USS Saipan (CVL-48), assigned to Atlantic Fleet. Deployed to the Mediteranean. |
16 August 1951 |
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Base of operations changed.
NAAS Cecil Field, FL. |
November 1951 |
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Base of operations changed.
NAS Oceana, VA. |
From May 1952 to January 1953 |
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Transferred to NAS Quonset Point, RI.
For Overhaul and Repair and Maintenance and Service. |
30 January 1953 |
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Transferred to Naval Air Reserve Training, Olathe, KS. |
10 September 1954 |
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Transferred to NART, NAS Grosse Ile, MI. |
November 1954 |
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Transferred to NAS San Diego, CA.
For Overhaul and Repair and Maintenance and Service. |
31 January 1955 |
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Transferred to NART, NAS Olathe, KS. |
7 June 1956 |
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Assigned to NAF Litchfield Park, AZ for storage. |
5 July 1956 |
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Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy. |
25 November 1957 |
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To Bob Bean Aircraft, Hawthorne, CA with new c/r N5211V.
Purchased from USN for $917.00. |
5 November 1958 |
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Trade arranged by Bob Bean with Fuerza Aerea Hondurena for four airworthy Lockheed P-38Ls and two flyable and two wrecked P-63Es. |
13 November 1958 |
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Civil registration, N5211V, cancelled.
Cancelled to allow export of aircraft. |
February 1960 |
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Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea Hondurena with s/n FAH610. |
By 1969 |
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Struck off Strength/Charge from the Fuerza Aerea Hondurena.
SOC at Toncontin Air Base, Tegucigalpa, and used as a source of spare parts. |
1978 |
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To George Heaven (and) Jim Nettle/Hollywood Wings, Long Beach, CA. |
1979 |
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Transported by rail
One of seven dismantled airframes recovered and shipped by rail from Honduras to Long Beach, CA. Noted as stripped. |
1 January 1981 |
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To Earl Ware, Jacksonville, FL.
Fuselage hulk stored in his back yard. |
27 September 1982 |
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To Gerald S. Beck/Tri-State Warbird Collection, Wahpeton, ND.
Restoration project. |
1982 |
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Restoration started. |
22 April 1997 |
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To Gerald S. Beck/Tri-State Warbird Collection, Wahpeton, ND with new c/r N5211V.
FAA reinstated the old c/r. |
23 April 1997 |
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To Gerald S. Beck/Tri-State Warbird Collection, Wahpeton, ND with new c/r N72378. |
1998 |
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Restoration completed. |
20 July 1998 |
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Certificate of airworthiness for NX72378 (F4U-4, 97388) issued. |
July 1998 |
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First post-restoration Flight. |
13 December 2009 |
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To Cynthia Schreiber-Beck and Whitney S. Beck,.
From Gerald Becks estate: owned but registration not yet transferred; Gerald died in P-51 crash. |
12 January 2010 |
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To unknown owner with c/r N72378.
Registration pending to a new owner in Wahpeton, ND. |
17 February 2010 |
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To Cynthia K. Schreiber-Beck, Wahpeton, ND keeping c/r N72378.
Markings added: C-310
FAA notes joint ownership. |
2010 |
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Loaned to Fargo Air Museum, Hector International Airport, Fargo, ND.
 View the Location Dossier |
24 July 2017 |
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Photographer: Terry Fletcher
Notes: At 2017 EAA Airventure at Oshkosh |
15 May 2021 |
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Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
Notes: At Illinois Valley airport, Peru, IL |
15 May 2021 |
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Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
Notes: At Illinois Valley airport, Peru, IL |
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