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    Airframe Family: Grumman F7F Tigercat
    Latest Model:F7F-3 Tigercat
    Last Military Serial:80373 USMC
    Construction Number:C-115
    Last Civil Registration:N7654C
    Compressed ID:Grumman F7F-3 sn 80373 USMC cn C-11...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F7F-3.

    March 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 80373.

    March 1945

    Transferred to Marine Fighter Squadron 911 (VMF-911), MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

    1948

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Marine Corps.

    From 1963 to 1966

    To Calvin J. Butler/Butler Farm Air Service, Redmond, OR with new c/r N7654C.

    Operated as fire service #F18.

    1969

    To TBM Inc of Tulare, CA keeping c/r N7654C.
    Markings added: E63

    Operated as fire service #E63.

    September 1977


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: one of TBM Incs Tigercats N7654C #E63 on the ramp at Sequoia in September 1977

    21 September 1980

    Ferry flight. Delivered to National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
    Flown to the museum.
    View the Location Dossier

    23 April 1993

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL keeping c/r N7654C.

    23 April 1993

    To National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, FL keeping c/r N7654C.

    19 August 1999

    Civil registration, N7654C, cancelled.

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2011


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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    American Aviation Historical Society
    American Aviation Historical Society
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Warbird Registry by Scott Rose
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Matt Maranto
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