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    Airframe Family: Grumman F9F/F-9 Panther/Cougar
    Latest Model:F9F-2B Panther
    Last Military Serial:0453 ARA
    Compressed ID:Grumman F9F-2B sn 0453 ARA
    Latest Owner or Location:Argentina Naval Museum, San Fernando, Buenos Aires

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F9F-2B.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 127206.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armada de la Republica Argentina with s/n 0453 and operated with these markings: 3-A-123.

    To First Attack Squadron.

    New serial number assigned: 0453 ARA and operated with the markings: 3-A-119

    27 July 1963

    Made the only landing of a Panther on the aircraft carrier ARA Independencia on.

    Markings Applied: 3-A-118

    6 September 1971

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Armada de la Republica Argentina.

    To Argentina Naval Museum, San Fernando, Buenos Aires.
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    Circa 2011


    Photographer: Museo de la Aviacion Naval Argentina
    Notes: In the naval museum of the nation.
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