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    Airframe Family: Vought F6U Pirate
    Latest Model:F6U-1 Pirate
    Last Military Serial:122479 USN
    Compressed ID:Vought F6U-1 sn 122479 USN
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F6U-1.
    Second production model

    24 February 1949

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 122479.

    Circa February 1949

    Transferred to Air Development Squadron 3 (VX-3), NAS Patuxent River, MD.

    May 1950

    Transferred to Bureau of Aeronautics, NAS Dallas, TX.
    Used for testing.

    14 December 1950

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.
    At NAS Dallas.

    Circa 1951

    To U. S. Navy Bureau of Ordinance.
    Used for damage trials and weapons testing at a firing range at Socorro, NM.

    By 1980

    To New England Air Museum, Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, CT.
    View the Location Dossier

    2002

    To Vought Aircraft Heritage Foundation (VAHF), NAS Dallas (formerly), Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.
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    October 2002

    Transported by ground.
    Trucked from NEAM to the Vought plant at Hensley Field, Grand Prairie, TX for restoration.

    From 2002 to 2012

    Restored.
    Restored by retirees of the Vought Corporation at Hensley Field, TX.

    2008


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Vought Aircraft, Vought Aircraft Heritage Foundation, Dallas, TX

    February 2012

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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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 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Air History.org
    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    National Naval Aviation Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Vought Heritage
    Wikipedia
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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