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    Airframe Family: Grumman F6F Hellcat
    Latest Model:F6F-5 Hellcat
    Last Military Serial:78645 USN
    Last Civil Registration:N9265A
    Compressed ID:Grumman F6F-5 sn 78645 USN cr N9265...
    Latest Owner or Location:N9265A Llc, Granite Falls, MN

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F6F-5.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 78645.

    3 March 1981

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX9265A (F6F-5, 78645) issued.

    7 May 1986


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: Got a chance to see this a/c outside. In Chino, CA

    January 1991


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Yanks Air Museum, Chino, CA

    26 July 1996

    To Charles F. Nichols, Baldwin Park, CA with new c/r N9265A.

    To Yanks Air Museum, Chino Airport, Chino, CA.
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    Markings Applied: 45

    1 January 2003

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX9265A (F6F-5, 78645) issued.

    23 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Exhibited in Hall 2 of Yanks Air Museum at Chino in California

    27 March 2018

    To N9265A Llc, Granite Falls, MN keeping c/r N9265A.

    1 July 2021

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX9265A (F6F-5, 78645) issued.

    6 August 2021


    Photographer: Xavier Meal
    Notes: Aircraft won World War II Grand Champion at Oshkosh 2021
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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