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    Airframe Family: Grumman F9F/F-9 Panther/Cougar
    Latest Model:TF-9J Cougar
    Last Military Serial:147418 USN
    Construction Number:388
    Compressed ID:Grumman TF-9J sn 147418 USN cn 388
    Latest Owner or Location:Veterans Memorial Museum, Airport (formerly), Huntsville, Alabama

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TF-9J.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 147418.

    By August 1983

    To Mississippi MacHinery Museum (M. W. Hamilton Proprietor) Petal, MS.

    Circa 1 June 1989


    Photographer: Oliver G Brown (MS Machinery Museum)
    Notes: This is how the aircraft appeared in between 1983 and 1989 while at the MS Machinery Museum in Petal MS.

    Circa 1 June 1989


    Photographer: Oliver G Brown (MS Machinery Museum)
    Notes: Aircraft at MS Machinery Museum 1983 - 1989.

    By March 2004

    To Mississippi Armed Forces Museum, Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, MS.
    View the Location Dossier

    By April 2010

    To Veterans Memorial Museum, Airport (formerly), Huntsville, AL.
    View the Location Dossier

    27 April 2010


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Huntsville - Veterans Memorial Park, AL, USA

    May 2013


    Photographer: Randy Beavers
    Notes: A/C is being restored to static display with original colors of VT-25.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2013 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerodata Quantum+
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Oliver Brown
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