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    Airframe Family: Grumman F8F Bearcat
    Latest Model:F8F-2P Bearcat
    Last Military Serial:121714 USN
    Construction Number:D-1088
    Last Civil Registration:G-RUMM
    Compressed ID:Grumman F8F-2P sn 121714 USN cn D-1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Patina Ltd, The FIghter Collection Jersey, UK

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    Dates

    Event

    1948

    Constructed as a F8F-2.

    August 1948

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 121714.

    August 1948

    Transferred to NAS Pensacola, FL.

    Converted to a F8F-2N.

    1952

    Converted to a F8F-2P.

    January 1957

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    From 1957 to 1972

    To Ed Maloney/The Air Museum, Claremont, CA with new c/r N4995V.

    1957

    Based at Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino Airport, Chino, CA.
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    3 October 1972

    To Harold Beal and Charles Smith, Knoxville, TN with new c/r N1YY.

    From 3 October 1972 to 1981

    To B and S Advertising Inc/Harold Beal and Charles Smith, Knoxville, TN keeping c/r N1YY.

    1973


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: This photo was taken at DuPage Airport, West Chicago. The year taken was marked on the back. The photo was found in 1983 in a junk drawer at DuPage Airport Control Tower.

    1975

    Restored.
    More work carried out in the USA prior to shipping to the U.K.

    1977

    To B [and] S Advertising Inc, Knoxville, TN with new c/r N700H.

    January 1981

    To B and S Advertising Inc, Knoxville, TN with new c/r N700HL.

    From 1981 to 3 June 1981

    Transported by ship.
    USA to UK. Arrived Geneva, shipped from USA by John Crocker.

    June 1981

    Operated by The Fighter Collection, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    29 May 1982


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1982 photo at Mildenhall, AFB UK - of a Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat

    29 May 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete 82

    16 July 1994


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Flying Legends Duxford (EGSU).

    19 March 1998

    Civil registration, N700HL, cancelled.

    20 March 1998

    To Patina Ltd, The FIghter Collection Jersey, UK with new c/r G-RUMM.

    Circa 1999


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Planes of Fame, Chino Airport, CA.

    Markings Applied: 201, B, 121714

    8 October 2006


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: Duxford Autumn Air Show 2006

    27 September 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Imperial War Museum, Duxford, UK

    13 September 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Duxford Autumn Airshow

    13 September 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    The Fighter Collection
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Stan Cooper
    Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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