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    Airframe Family: Grumman F9F/F-9 Panther/Cougar
    Latest Model:TF-9J Cougar
    Last Military Serial:142985 USN
    Compressed ID:Grumman TF-9J sn 142985 USN
    Latest Owner or Location:Hickory Aviation Museum, Hickory Regional Airport, Hickory, North Carolina

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F9F-8T.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 142985.

    1962

    Redesignated as TF-9J.

    March 1995

    Placed on display with Tuskegee Municipal Airport/Moton Field, Tuskegee, AL.
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    28 March 2011


    Photographer: Mark Pasqualino
    Notes: At Morton Field Municipal

    5 August 2014

    Placed on display with Hickory Aviation Museum, Hickory Regional Airport, Hickory, NC.
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    26 April 2016


    Photographer: Graham Tanner
    Notes: Taken at Hickory, North Carolina, U.S.A.
    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 2007 by Andy Marden
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2016 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
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