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    Airframe Family: Grumman F6F Hellcat
    Latest Model:F6F-5N Hellcat
    Last Military Serial:94204 USN
    Last Civil Registration:N4998V
    Compressed ID:Grumman F6F-5N sn 94204 USN cr N499...
    Latest Owner or Location:F6F Hellcat Llc, Beaverton, OR

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F6F-5N.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 94204.

    To Planes of Fame Air Museum/Ed Maloney, Ontario Airport, Ontario, CA.
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    By May 1971


    Photographer: Charlene Aro

    7 November 1986

    To Air SRV Inc, Hockley, TE with new c/r N4998V.

    23 May 1989

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX4998V (F6F-5, 94204) issued.

    October 1997


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Houston, Texas

    17 April 2003

    To Texas Aviation Hall of Fame DBA, Galveston, TX keeping c/r N4998V.

    July 2005


    Photographer: David Miller
    Notes: At 2005 AirVenture at Oshkosh

    Based at Lone Star Flight Museum, Scholes Field, Galveston, TX.
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    Markings Applied: 32

    10 March 2017

    To Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston, TX keeping c/r N4998V.

    16 August 2017

    To Lone Star Flight Museum, Houston, TX keeping c/r N4998V.

    Based at Lone Star Flight Museum, Ellington Field, Houston, TX.
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    18 October 2017

    To F6F Hellcat Llc, Beaverton, OR keeping c/r N4998V.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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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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     Mike Henniger
    Noah Rechtin
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