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    Airframe Family: Vought F4U/FG/AU Corsair / F2G Super Corsair
    Latest Model:F4U-5NL Corsair
    Last Military Serial:124486 USN
    Last Civil Registration:N494M
    Compressed ID:Vought F4U-5NL sn 124486 USN cr N49...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Combat Museum, Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport, Springfield, Illinois

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F4U-5NL.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 124486.

    May 1991


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA

    April 1994


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At MCAS El Toro, CA Open House

    18 November 1998

    To George Mike, Springfield, IL with new c/r N494M.

    Based at Air Combat Museum, Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport, Springfield, IL.
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    4 September 2012


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: on display with Air Combet Museum (Mike George Collection) Springfield IL
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