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    Airframe Family: Grumman F4F/FM Wildcat
    Latest Model:Martlet I
    Last Military Serial:AL246 RN
    Construction Number:0663
    Compressed ID:Grumman Martlet I sn AL246 RN cn 06...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F4F-3.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n AL246 as a Martlet I.
    Originally for the French Navy, but was not delivered and was diverted to the Royal Navy Air Arm.

    16 August 1940

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n AL246.

    From 1945 to 1961

    To Loughborough College, Loughborough.
    Markings added: 2R M, AL246
    Used as an instructional airframe still in Royal Navy markings.

    From 27 April 1961 to 1963

    Transported by ground. Delivered to RNAS Yeovilton.
    Arrived by road.


    Photographer: Air Britain

    1962


    Photographer: Unknown

    1963

    To Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
    View the Location Dossier

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: Royal Navy, AL246

    17 September 2005


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At RNAS Yeovilton Air Show - paint shop of Fleet Air Arm Museum

    24 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton in the UK

    24 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton in the UK

    Markings Applied: AL246
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Fleet Air Arm Aircraft 1939 to 1945 (1995, ISBN 0 85130 232 7) by Ray Sturtivant and Mick Burrow
    Internet Sources
     Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
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