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    Airframe Family: Grumman F6F Hellcat
    Latest Model:F6F-5K Hellcat
    Last Military Serial:79863 USN
    Construction Number:A-11008
    Last Civil Registration:N79863
    Compressed ID:Grumman F6F-5K sn 79863 USN cn A-11...
    Latest Owner or Location:Wartime History Museum Inc, Tacoma, WA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F6F-5K.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 79863.

    14 May 1980

    Certificate of airworthiness for N79863 (F6F-5, 79863) issued.

    25 November 1985

    To Patriots Point DVLPMT Auth, MT Pleasant, SO with new c/r N79863.

    12 February 2001

    To Vulcan Warbirds Inc, Seattle, WA keeping c/r N79863.

    May 2004

    Based at Flying Heritage Collection/Paul Allen, Paine Field, Everett, WA.
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    Restored.

    27 March 2013

    First post-restoration Flight.
    Flown at Paine Field, Everett, Washington.

    June 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
    Notes: The Flying Heritage Collection

    June 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
    Notes: The Flying Heritage Collection

    13 September 2014


    Photographer: David Lednicer
    Notes: Carter Teeters makes a low pass during a Flying Heritage Collection Fly Day at Paine Field, Everett, WA.

    14 January 2015

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX79863 (F6F-5, 79863) issued.

    To Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum, Paine Field, Everett, WA.
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    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Everett - Paine Field, Washington, U.S.A.

    3 March 2023

    To Wartime History Museum Inc, Tacoma, WA keeping c/r N79863.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2016 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerodata Quantum+
    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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