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    Airframe Family: Vought F4U/FG/AU Corsair / F2G Super Corsair
    Latest Model:F4U-4 Corsair
    Last Military Serial:81698 USN
    Last Civil Registration:N53JB
    Latest Owner or Location:War Eagles Air Museum, Santa Teresa, NM

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F4U-4 with USN BuNo 81698.
    Chance Vought F4U-4 BU81698

    18 March 1981

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX53JB (F4U-4, BU81698) issued.

    3 December 1983

    To MacGuire Charitable Foundation, Santa Teresa, NE with new c/r N53JB.

    11 September 1995

    To War Eagles Air Museum, Santa Teresa Airport/Dona Ana County Airport, El Paso, NM with new c/r N53JB.
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    11 September 1995

    To War Eagles Air Museum, Santa Teresa, NM keeping c/r N53JB.

    28 June 2013


    Photographer: Zane Adams
    Notes: At the War Eagles Museum - Santa Teresa, NM

    4 September 2014


    Photographer: Gustav Hebrok
    Notes: A/C was moved out of the hangar to create space for ceiling fan installation.

    April 2016


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    April 2016


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    April 2016


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    April 2016


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    1 January 2018

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX53JB (F4U-4, BU81698) issued.
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