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    Airframe Family: Grumman J2F/OA-12 Duck
    Latest Model:J2F-6 Duck
    Last Military Serial:33549 USN
    Construction Number:33549
    Last Civil Registration:N1214N
    Latest Owner or Location:Worlds Greatest Aircraft Collection Inc, Polk City, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a J2F-6.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 33549.

    29 August 1958

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL1214N (J2F6, 33549) issued.

    From 1963 to 1969

    To Woodhouse Inc, Long Beach CA with new c/r N1214N.

    From 1973 to 1978

    To John C. Seidel, Sugar Grove IL keeping c/r N1214N.
    Markings added: 311

    1973


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: At DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL. Photo was found in a desk at the control tower.

    July 1979


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Oshkosh.

    29 July 1979


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1979 photo at Oshkosh WI - of a Grumman/Columbia Aircraft Corp J2F-6 Duck

    26 July 1980


    Photographer: Martha Johnson
    Notes: I was flying the Stearman when Kermit Weeks pulled up along side us for some photos. Martha Johnson took the photo.

    16 April 1982

    To Weeks Air Museum Inc, Polk City, FL keeping c/r N1214N.

    16 April 1982

    To Worlds Greatest Aircraft Collection Inc, Polk City, FL keeping c/r N1214N.

    Based at Fantasy of Flight/Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL.
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    Markings Applied: Candy Clipper, I-J-7, N1214N

    24 August 1992

    Badly dam. Tamiami FL by Hurricane Andrew.

    From 1993 to 1995

    Repaired.
    At Wichita, KS.

    11 November 1996


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: On display at the Fantasy of Flight Museum, Polk City.

    7 April 1997


    Photographer: Earl A Holmquist
    Notes: Photographed at Weeks Air Museum, FL.

    4 October 2008

    15 March 2011

    To Worlds Greatest Aircraft Collection Inc, Polk City, FL keeping c/r N1214N.

    29 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Photographed at 2011 Sun n Fun at Lakeland, Florida

    4 April 2022


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Candy Clipper artwork on the nose of the Duck at Fantasy of Flight, Polk CIty, FL
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