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    Airframe Family: Vought F4U/FG/AU Corsair / F2G Super Corsair
    Latest Model:FG-1D Corsair
    Last Military Serial:88382 USN
    Construction Number:3196
    Compressed ID:Goodyear FG-1D sn 88382 USN cn 3196...
    Latest Owner or Location:Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington

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    Dates

    Event

    April 1945

    Constructed as a FG-1D by Goodyear.

    April 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 88382.

    April 1945

    Transferred to USS Intrepid (CV-11).

    1946

    Transferred to U. S. Naval Reserve.

    1950

    Transferred to Naval Air Station, Sand Point, Seattle.

    29 July 1950

    Crashed.
    Commander Ralph Milleson made a water landing on Lake Washington following a non-fatal midair collision with another Corsair.

    11 August 1983

    Recovered.
    Recovered for the Navy by Gary Larkin/Air Pirates.

    August 1983

    Restoration started.
    Moved to Boeing Museum restoraton facility at Paine Field.

    To National Museum of Naval Aviation, NAS Pensacola, FL.

    14 June 1984

    Loaned to Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, WA.
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    From May 1988 to March 1992

    Restoration completed.
    Markings Applied: S/89
    Final restoration for static display by John Lane/Airpower Unlimited, Jerome, ID.

    March 1992

    Transported by ground.
    Trucked to Museum of Flight.

    13 August 1994


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    29 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo in Museum of Flight at Seattle

    June 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    June 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    June 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbird Registry by Scott Rose
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
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