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Re: surviving Grumman Wildcats

Posted by Ron Olsen on Sun Sep 15, 2002 06:20:41 PM

In reply top surviving Grumman Wildcats posted by Pat Carry on Sat Sep 14, 2002 10:14:14 PM

Pat,

I had questions about several entries in the Flypast list so I contacted the Nat. Mus. of Naval Aviation. I asked them if they could tell me where their loaned out Wildcats were. This list is from their website, with the loaned out info added by them as of Aug 29th.

I passed this on to Ken Ellis so maybe there will be an update coming to the Flypast list, although he has not responded to my e-mail.

Airplanes in our Collection:
Bureau # Location
4039 Inside
3872 Inside
3969 Inside
16089 Inside
86747 Inside
12290 Storage
55082 Storage [Number should be 55052]
16161 Storage
12297 [Loaned Out to Cradle of Aviation Museum]
12320 [Loaned Out to O'Hara Airport, Chicago]
11828 [Loaned Out to San Diego Aerospace Museum]
14994 [Loaned Out to Valiant Air Command]
74161 [Loaned Out to Admiral Nimtz Museum]
16278 [Loaned Out to MCAS Miramar, California]
[55404 Storage]

Hope this is helpful.

Ron Olsen


: I was looking at the list of surviving Wildcats in the Sep
: t. issue of Fly Past and I noticed they didn't list the on
: e at O'Hare International Airport which is on display as a
: tribute to Butch O'Hare. Anyone know why?

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