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    Airframe Family: Grumman F6F Hellcat
    Latest Model:Hellcat FR.II
    Last Military Serial:KE209 RAF
    Construction Number:A-10924
    Compressed ID:Grumman Hellcat FR.II sn KE209 RAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hellcat FR.II.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 79779.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n KE209 as a Hellcat FR.II.

    From April 1953 to 1960

    Assigned to RNAS Lossiemouth for storage.
    Stored for the museum.

    1965

    To Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
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    Photographer: Unknown


    Photographer: Charles M. Daniels Collection
    Notes: At Yeovilton, Somerset, UK

    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
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     Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
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