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    Airframe Family: Curtiss-Wright F15C
    Latest Model:XF15C-1
    Last Military Serial:01215 USN
    Compressed ID:Curtiss-Wright XF15C-1 sn 01215 USN...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hickory Aviation Museum, Hickory Regional Airport, Hickory, North Carolina

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a XF15C-1.

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 01215.

    1945

    Transferred to Naval Aircraft Testing Center (NATC), Patuxent River, MD.

    May 1947

    Last flight.

    1947

    Assigned to United States Navy for storage.
    Unknown location.

    By June 1992

    To New England Air Museum, Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, CT.
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    By June 2004

    To Quonset Air Museum, Quonset State Airport, North Kingston, RI.
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    7 August 2012


    Photographer: Chris Horkachuck
    Notes: Quonset Air Museum.

    2017

    To Hickory Aviation Museum, Hickory Regional Airport, Hickory, NC.
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    13 March 2018


    Photographer: Hickory Aviation Museum
    Notes: Curtiss XF15C-1 Stingeree arrived at Hickory Aviation Museum, Hickory NC in 2017 and went on display May 2018. It is the only surviving aircraft of the three prototypes produced. For further information, email the museum info@hickoryaviationmuseum.com.
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    Mike Henniger
    Chris Horkachuck
    Noah Rechtin
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