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    Airframe Family: Vought F4U/FG/AU Corsair / F2G Super Corsair
    Latest Model:Corsair IV
    Last Military Serial:KD431 RN
    Construction Number:1871
    Compressed ID:Vought Corsair IV sn KD431 RN cn 18...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Corsair IV.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 14862.

    8 November 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n KD431.

    By 1964

    To Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
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    Markings Applied: E2-M

    24 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton in the UK

    24 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton in the UK

    1 February 2014


    Photographer: John Bennett
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