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Constructed as a FM-2 by General Motors Eastern Aircraft Division at Baltimore, MD, USA. |
1945 |
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Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 86746. |
Circa 1947 |
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To California Polytechnic Institute, CA with new c/r N6290C. |
Circa 1952 |
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To unknown owner with c/r N6290C.
Unknown owner, Medford OR: stripped for spares. |
1964 |
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To Forrest M. Watson, Wellington, TX keeping c/r N6290C. |
Circa 1965 |
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To Robert L. Younkin, Fayetteville AR keeping c/r N6290C.
Hulk. |
February 1966 |
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To Dick Lambert and Michael Rettke, Atlanta, GA keeping c/r N6290C. |
April 1966 |
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Transported by ground.
Trucked dismantled from St. Louis, MO to Atlanta, GA. |
From 1966 to 1967 |
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Restored. |
6 June 1967 |
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First post-restoration Flight. |
By July 1967 |
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Photographer: Unknown |
14 September 1967 |
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Certificate of airworthiness for NL6290C (FM-2, 5804) issued. |
Circa 1968 |
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Photographer: Unknown |
1969 |
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To Michael G. Rettke, Merritt Island, FL keeping c/r N6290C. |
Circa 4 July 1969 |
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Photographer: robert brown
Notes: Gainesville, Georgia |
13 February 1970 |
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To Rudolph A. Frasca/Antiques and Classics Inc/Frasca Air Museum, Frasca Field, Champaign IL keeping c/r N6290C. |
Circa September 1975 |
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Photographer: Larry Johnson
Notes: N1PP is behind in Galesburg, IL. |
1978 |
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Photographer: Unknown
Notes: Photographed at Oshkosh. |
July 1979 |
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Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
Notes: At the Lewis-Lockport Airport (Now Lewis University Airport), Romeoville, IL |
31 July 1979 |
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Photographer: Paul Thallon
Notes: 1979 photo at Oshkosh WI - of a Grumman FM-2 Wildcat |
6 July 1985 |
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Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
Notes: At Dixon, IL |
6 July 1985 |
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Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
Notes: At Dixon, IL |
24 June 1990 |
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Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
Notes: At DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL |
26 June 1990 |
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Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
Notes: Photographed from the control tower at DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL |
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To Frasca Air Museum, Frasca Field, Champaign, IL.
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23 July 2011 |
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Photographer: Mike Henniger
Notes: Photographed at the Thunder Over Michigan Air Show at Ypsilanti, Michigan. |
23 July 2011 |
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Photographer: Mike Henniger
Notes: Photographed at the Thunder Over Michigan Air Show at Ypsilanti, Michigan. |
1 January 2014 |
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Certificate of airworthiness for NL6290C (FM-2, 5804) issued. |
19 February 2016 |
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To Rudolf A. Frasca DBA, Urbana, IL keeping c/r N6290C. |
10 April 2021 |
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To Lucille A. Frasca, Urbana, IL keeping c/r N6290C. |
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