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    Airframe Family: Grumman F4F/FM Wildcat
    Latest Model:FM-2 Wildcat
    Last Military Serial:55627 USN
    Construction Number:3268
    Last Civil Registration:N47201
    Compressed ID:General Motors Eastern Aircraft Div...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pond Warbirds Llc, Reno, NV

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a FM-2 by General Motors Eastern Aircraft Division at Baltimore, MD, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 55627.

    From By 1959 to By 1972

    To The Air Museum/Ed Maloney, Ontario, CA with new c/r N7906C.

    From 1976 to By 1977

    To James Nunn, Ontario, CA with new c/r N47201.

    10 November 1976

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL47201 (FM-2, 3268) issued.

    May 1977


    Photographer: Gary Maisack
    Notes: Planes of Fame Airshow, Chino, CA

    From By 1982 to By 1984

    To John V. Crocker, San Mateo, CA.

    From 1982 to By 1985

    Leased to Stephen Grey, Duxford, UK.
    LEASEDOUT.

    Markings Applied: 47201, 8

    28 May 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete 83

    From Unknown to 11 June 1982

    Transported by ship.
    Moved from France to the USA.

    From June 1985 to By 1997

    To Planes of Fame East/Robert J. Pond, Eden Prairie, MN.
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    2 August 1988


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Oshkosh, WI

    Circa 1993


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Planes of Fame East, Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

    December 1997

    To Pond Warbirds Llc, Palm Springs, CA.

    Operated by Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs International Airport, Palm Springs, CA.
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    Markings Applied: F-3
    Painted in USN markings.

    29 October 1999

    To Robert J. Pond, Palm Springs, CA keeping c/r N47201.

    3 July 2001

    To Pond Warbirds Llc, Saint Cloud, MN keeping c/r N47201.

    1 January 2010

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL47201 (FM-2, 3268) issued.

    28 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the Palm Springs Air Museum, California

    4 October 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Palm Springs Air Museum, CA.

    13 February 2018

    To Pond Warbirds Llc, Reno, NV keeping c/r N47201.
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    Print Sources
     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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