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    Airframe Family: Grumman F9F/F-9 Panther/Cougar
    Latest Model:F9F-5 Panther
    Last Military Serial:125183 USN
    Compressed ID:Grumman F9F-5 sn 125183 USN
    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 F9F-5.

    11 September 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 125183.

    Transferred to USMC Fighter Squadron VMF-311, MCAS El Toro, CA.

    To Aerocrafters, Charles M. Schultz Sonoma County Airport, Santa Rosa, CA.
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    By 1991

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    By 1991

    Markings Applied: 25, MARINES, WL
    In markings worn by VMF-311, Pusan, Korea, 1952.

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At the Pima Museum, Arizona.

    14 December 2010


    Photographer: Richard Lane

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    23 April 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ, USA.
    Credits
     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
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    Pima Air and Space Museum
    Individual Contributors
     Johnny Comstedt
    Mike Henniger
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