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    Airframe Family: Grumman F9F/F-9 Panther/Cougar
    Latest Model:F9F-5 Panther
    Compressed ID:Grumman F9F-5
    Latest Owner or Location:USS Midway Museum, San Diego, California

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    Event

    Constructed as a F9F-5.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy.
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    Markings Applied: 118, B, 141136
    Real BuNo 141136 was in fact a F9F-8 Cougar.

    9 October 1982


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: Dick Kleberg Park, Kingsville, TX

    By 2004

    To USS Midway Museum, San Diego, CA.
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    By 27 February 2009

    Markings Applied: 106, NAVY, 141136, D
    ARA-25 UHF antenna nose fairing was deleted.

    27 February 2009


    Photographer: Bill Kistler

    7 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    From 2014 to By 6 October 2016

    Restoration started.

    6 October 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: USS Midway, San Diego, CA.

    6 October 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: USS Midway, San Diego, CA.
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