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Constructed as a FM-2P by General Motors Eastern Aircraft Division at Baltimore, MD, USA. |
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Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 88690. |
1946 |
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To Hardwick Aircraft Co, Rosemead, CA. |
9 February 1951 |
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To Hardwick Aircraft Co, Rosemead, CA with new c/r N68760.
Aircraft type shown as - Hardwick Special HG-1. |
May 1954 |
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To Hardwick Aircraft Co, Rosemead, CA with new c/r N20HA.
Modified for use as a crop sprayer by fitting two wingtip tanks and two underwing tanks. |
From 1956 to 1958 |
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To Don Underwood, Phoenix, AZ, keeping c/r N20HA. |
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Photographer: Brian R. Baker |
From 1963 to 1964 |
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To S S Steele, Safford, AZ keeping c/r N20HA. |
From 1966 to 1972 |
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To James R Freese, Fremont, CA keeping c/r N20HA. |
1972 |
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To Jack Lenhardt/Lenhardt Airpark, Hubbard, OR keeping c/r N20HA.
Markings added: Marines, 2 |
10 September 1973 |
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Certificate of airworthiness for N20HA (FM-2, 51-235) issued. |
From 1978 to August 1994 |
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Loaned to National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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1 November 1979 |
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Photographer: Peter Nicholson
Notes: FM-2 Wildcat as displayed in the Pensacola Naval Aviation Museum in November 1979. |
4 August 1993 |
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To World Jet Inc, Fort Lauderdale, FL with new c/r N70637. |
4 October 1993 |
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To Jeff Clyman/NA-50 Inc, New York, NY keeping c/r N70637. |
1 February 1994 |
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To Jeff Clyman/NA-50 Inc, New York, NY with new c/r N49JC. |
3 October 1995 |
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To John C. Dimmer, Tacoma, WA keeping c/r N49JC. |
From Unknown to 2002 |
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Loaned to Olympic Flight Museum, Olympia Regional Airport, WA. |
February 2002 |
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Photographer: Ron Olsen |
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To Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, WA.
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22 March 2012 |
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Civil registration, N49JC, cancelled.
Exported to United Kingdom. |
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Photographer: Unknown |
20 April 2012 |
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Photographer: Terry Fletcher
Notes: Ex Museum of Flight in Seattle - now noted under overhaul at Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden in the UK |
23 May 2013 |
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To Richard Shuttleworth Trustees with new c/r G-CHPN. |
23 May 2013 |
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To Richard Shuttleworth Trustees, Old Warden Aerodrome, Old Warden, Biggleswade keeping c/r G-CHPN. |
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Based at Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire-Central, England.
View the Location Dossier |
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Markings Applied: 19 |
11 May 2016 |
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To Thomas Woodstock Harris, Grove House, Grove, Leighton Buzzard with new c/r G-KINL. |
11 October 2022 |
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Photographer: Fred Taylor
Notes: Following its arrival at Duxford on 27 April 2016 for restoration, G-KINL, painted to represent AX733, is seen here on the day of its first post restoration flight in the hands of John Romain. |
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