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    Airframe Family: Grumman F11F/F-11 Tiger
    Latest Model:F-11A Tiger
    Last Military Serial:141821 USN
    Construction Number:138
    Compressed ID:Grumman F-11A sn 141821 USN cn 138
    Latest Owner or Location:USS Hornet Museum, Alameda, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-11A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 141821.

    Transferred to Training Squadron 26 (VT-26), NAS Chase Field, TX.

    March 1961

    Assigned to Litchfield Park for storage.

    Transferred to Davis Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.

    20 June 1967

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 5F026.

    23 September 1974


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: Original Colours

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
    View the Location Dossier

    June 2002

    Placed on display with USS Hornet Museum, Alameda, CA.
    The museum keeps the cockpit/nose section portable on a trailer for display at off-site events.
    View the Location Dossier

    11 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: This photo was taken at the California Capital Air Show.

    19 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
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