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June 1943 |
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Constructed as a MC-202. |
19 June 1943 |
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Taken on Strength/Charge with the Aeronautica Militare Italiana with s/n MM91981. |
19 June 1943 |
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Transferred to 356A Squadron/21st Autonomous Group, Sicily.
Operated with markings: 356-8 |
July 1943 |
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309th FS, 31st FG captured the plane at Sciacca, Italy. They named it Wacky-Macchi and few it marked similar as a Spitfire. |
By 20 August 1943 |
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To Evaluation Branch of the Air Technical Service Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
Markings added: EB-300 |
27 March 1944 |
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To USAAFs Air Service Command facility, Tulsa, OK.
For overhauling. |
15 May 1944 |
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To Foreign Equipment Branch, Wright Field, OH.
Markings added: FE-300
Used for flight evaluation against American fighter aircraft and other captured aircraft of German and Japanese origin. |
June 1945 |
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To Freeman Field, Seymour, IN.
For further tests. |
Circa September 1945 |
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After Japanese surrender airshow was held at Freeman. |
Circa September 1945 |
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Markings Applied: FE-498. |
April 1946 |
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To T-2 Office of Air Force Intelligence.
Markings added: T2-498
Foreign Equipment Branch reorganized. |
August 1946 |
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Transported by ground. Delivered to 803rd Special Depot, former Douglas C-54 factory, Orchard Place Airport, IL.
Disassembled and packed into shipping crates to send here. |
1951 |
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Transported by ground. Delivered to National Air Museums Paul Garber Restoration Facility, Suitland, MD. |
1966 |
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To Smithsonian-National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC.
Still at Garber facility.
 View the Location Dossier |
From 1974 to 1975 |
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Markings Applied: 90-4
No identity marking was found, though this is the least reconstructed Folgore (Lightning/Thunderbolt) survivor. It was thought that it may have originally been a Series VI to IX, probably the MM9476 sample. Restored and marked as MM9476, 90 Squadriglia, 10 Gruppo, 4 Stormo from North Africa with information provided by Italian Air Force and Aeronautica Macchi. |
1 July 1976 |
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Placed on display. |
11 June 1991 |
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Photographer: Glenn Chatfield |
3 June 2016 |
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Photographer: Arjun Sarup
Notes: One of two C.202 survivors, on display at the National Air and Space Museum. This Folgore is painted in the markings of 90 Squadriglia, 10 Gruppo, 4 Stormo from North Africa. |
Circa April 2019 |
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Transported by ground. Delivered to Storage facilities, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA. |
2024 |
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Research led to identity being MM.91981 with the above information. |
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