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    Airframe Family: Convair F2Y Sea Dart
    Latest Model:YF2Y-1 Sea Dart
    Last Military Serial:135765 USN
    Latest Owner or Location:Florida Air Museum, Lakeland Municipal Airport, Lakeland, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a YF2Y-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 135765.

    After 1973


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At the SST Museum in Kissimmee

    February 1989

    Placed on display with Florida Air Museum, Lakeland Municipal Airport, Lakeland, FL.
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    Markings Applied: 135763
    Wears false marks.

    11 November 1996


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: YF2Y-1 Sea Dart as displayed at the Florida Air Museum, Lakeland in November 1996.

    11 November 1996


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: YF2Y-1 Sea Dart on display at the Florida Air Museum at Lakeland in November 1996.

    13 February 2005


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Lakeland - Linder, FL, U.S.A.

    27 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Florida Air Museum

    To Aerospace Discovery, the Florida Air Museum, Lakeland Municipal Airport, Lakeland, FL.
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    To Florida Air Museum, Lakeland Municipal Airport, Lakeland, FL.
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    4 April 2022


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: With a new coat of paint and resized reg outside the Florida Air Museum, Lakeland, FL
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
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     John Bennett
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