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    Airframe Family: Vought F4U/FG/AU Corsair / F2G Super Corsair
    Latest Model:Corsair
    Last Military Serial:NZ5612 RNZAF
    Construction Number:2904
    Last Civil Registration:N43FG
    Compressed ID:Vought Corsair sn NZ5612 RNZAF cn 2...
    Latest Owner or Location:Black Pearl 51 Llc, Buffalo, NY

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Corsair.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 88090.

    15 June 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal New Zealand Air Force with s/n NZ5612.
    Assembled at Corsair Assembly Unit, Los Negros.

    To Cheraw Municipal Airport/Lynch Bellinger Field, Cheraw, SC.
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    October 1945

    Aircraft Storage Unit, Rukuhia.

    26 May 1949

    To J. Asplin.

    Circa 1972

    Rescued from Rukuhia aircraft graveyard and transported to Auckland.

    From 1974 to Circa 2004

    To Ross Jowitt, Wanaka, New Zealand.
    Stored unrepaired in a hangar for 30 years.

    2012

    New construction number, BA45FG-1, assigned to the airframe.

    20 June 2012

    To Barry G. Avent, Bennettsville, SC with new c/r N43FG.

    30 January 2014

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX43FG (FG-1D, BA45FG-1) issued.

    6 February 2014

    First post-restoration Flight.
    First post restoration flight by Eliot Cross at Cheraw Municipal Airport, SC.

    3 October 2014


    Photographer: Owen ORourke
    Notes: At Woodward Field Camden, SC (KCDN

    3 October 2014


    Photographer: Owen ORourke
    Notes: At Woodward Field Camden, SC (KCDN

    14 November 2017

    To Black Pearl 51 Llc, Buffalo, NY keeping c/r N43FG.

    27 July 2023


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: N43FG with US markings at AirVenture 2023, Oshkosh, WI
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