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    Airframe Family: Grumman F9F/F-9 Panther/Cougar
    Latest Model:RF-9J Cougar
    Last Military Serial:144426 USMC
    Construction Number:110
    Compressed ID:Grumman RF-9J sn 144426 USMC cn 110...
    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-8P.

    25 June 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 144426.

    November 1962

    Redesignated as RF-9J.

    Transferred to VMJ-4.

    Markings Applied: 45, 7X

    January 1966

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 3F0093.

    1969

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    25 September 1980


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1980 photo at Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ - of a Grumman RF-9J Cougar

    April 1987


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    By 9 September 2011

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: 2, MARINES VMCJ-2, CY, F9F-8P 144426
    Marked to represent a Cougar of the Marine Composite Reconnaissance Squadron Two, (VMCJ-2), MCAS Cherry Point, NC in 1957.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
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    Robert Nichols
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