INDEX OF PRESERVED AIRCRAFT TYPES USED BY THE FAA

Grumman F6F Hellcat

Type	Total Number 2000	FAA notes 1999-2000	Threat Status 1999-2000	Changes 1999-2000
Grumman F6F Hellcat	23 (+?) 9 airworthy 14 static including 1 replica and a composite	One known FAA aircraft is preserved: KE209/BuNo079302	-	1 wreck being preserved at Quonset Air Museum

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Grumman F6F Hellcat
Status	Civil Registration Nunber	Serial Number s/n	Type	Markings	Owner/Operator	Condition/Notes
	N30FG	BuNo: 041930	F6F-3	Marked as "41390/5K". See photo	Cinema Air Museum, Carlsbad, CA (USA)	Airworthy
	N1078Z	BuNo: 070222	F6F-5	USN markings with "USN 74". See photo	Confederate Air Force, Col Joe Mabee, Camarillo CA, USA	Airworthy
	N9265A	BuNo: 078645	F6F-5	With US markings as "USN 45"	Yanks Air Museum, Chino, CA (USA)	Airworthy
	N4PP	BuNo: 079683	F6F-5K	In US markings with "USN 4", See photo	Kalamazoo Air Zoo Museum, MI (USA)	Airworthy
	N79863	BuNo: 079863	F6F-5K	With USN markings "USN 00". See photo	Flying A Services, North Weald, UK Ex Iron Baron Corp., Dover, DE (USA). Registered in 1994.	Airworthy
	G-BTCC N80142, N100TF, N10CN	Bu No: 80141	F6F-5K	Appears in the colours of US Navy ace Lt Alex Vraciu who flew this particular aircraft as part of the Navy Fighting squadron VF-6, accounting for nine enemy aircraft 1943/1944. See photo	The Fighter Collection, Duxford (UK) from 1990. Ex US Navy Fighting squadron VF-6, accounting for nine enemy aircraft 1943/1944. Then VF-18, retired with only 318 flying hours, and transferred to the Naval Air Technical Training College (NATTC) in Chicago 29 August 1944. Ex Planes of Fame.	Airworthy. TFC's Hellcat, built in 943, is the only one flying outside of America
	N4994V	BuNo: 093879	F6F-5K	Marked as USN "USN 93879/31". See photo	Planes of Fame, Chino, CA (USA)	Airworthy restored ff1984
	N4998V	BuNo: 094204	F6F-5N	Marked as "USN 32". See photo	Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston, TX (USA). Retired from US Navy in 1954. The Hellcat was displayed at a restaurant in Livermore, California from mid-1960 to mid-1980.	Airworthy
	N4964W	BuNo: "94473"/001006 composite	F6F-5N	Marked as "USN 58644/36"	Palm Springs Air Museum (USA)	Airworthy composite
	-	KE209 BuNo: 079302	F6F-5N Hellcat FII	In original Fleet Air Arm markings	Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton (UK) This aircraft was first delivered to the FAA in April 1945 and was the CO aircraft (Lt Cdr JA Oevers, Lt Cdr Caspar John) at RNAS Lossiemouth 1945-1952. To FAA museum 1970.	Static
	-	BuNo: "24895" replica	F6F-5 replica	-	USS Intrepid, New York (USA)	Replica?
	-	BuNo: 041476	F6F	-	Quantico MCAS, VA (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 041834	F6F-3K	Painted with the markings of an F6F that served in VF-5 squadron off the USS Yorktown. See photo	NASM, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (USA) F6F-3K drone, Operation Crossroads, July 1946	Static
	-	BuNo: 042874	F6F-3	In US Navy markings. See Photo	San Diego Aerospace Museum (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 043014	F6F-3	-	Fantasy of Flight - Weeks Air Museum, Miami, FL (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 066237	F6F-3	Painted in WW II colours of VF-31 assigned to the USS Cabot, and reflects the fourteen aerial kills made by LTJG Ray Hawkins. See photo	National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola NAS, FL (USA)	Static restored Recovered in 1970 from 3400 feet of water off the coast of California where it had crashed in 1946 and restored to its present condition.
	-	BuNo: 070185	F6F-5	See photos	Quonset Air Museum, RI (USA) On loan from USN. Wreck retrieved 1993, from the seabed off Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts	Static - wrecked condition - being preserved
	-	BuNo: 077122	F6F-5	-	Andrews AFB, MD (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 079192 Built 1943	F6F-5	Marked in all navy blue colour with "660'. See photo	New England Air Museum, CT (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 079593	F6F-5	In US Navy markings CDR Jimmy Flatley (See photo)	Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum/USS Yorktown, Mt. Pleasant, SC (USA). See also Hellcat page of the museum	Static
	-	BuNo: 094203	F6F-5	Painted in the colours of CDR David McCampbell, the US Navy's leading ace 34 aerial kills and 20 on the ground. See photo	National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola NAS, FL (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 094263	F6F-5	-	Cradle of Aviation Museum, Mitchell Field, NY (USA) On loan from US Marine Corps Museum	Static
	-	BuNo: 094385	F6F-5	-	Museum of American Aircraft, Hayward, CA (USA)	Static

Associations and reunions

F6F Memorial Foundation, Quonset Air Museum (USA)

FURTHER INFORMATION
Aviation Enthusiast Corner Museum/aircraft reference	F6F aircraft and museum locator
Airworthy Fighter Aircraft in Airworthy Warbirds & Aircraft	Worldwide lists of selected Bombers, Fighters, Liaison, Trainers and Transport aircraft. The aim of this site is to build up a database with 'all' airworthy Warbirds and those being rebuilt to airworthy condition. Currently the site contains 773 different aircraft and 451 pictures of the aircraft.
Flightline - Preserved US Military Aircraft	This list of US military aircraft preserved and displayed was originally compiled by Ben Marselis with input from many others. Our coverage of airworthy warbirds is very limited, since Ben did not cover them in the original list. We have concentrated on those which are often on display rather than personal projects.
Warbird Alley	Warbird Alley, an online reference source for information about privately-owned, ex-military aircraft. Includes details and specs and a summary total of airworthy aircraft including the Hellcat.
	Sturtivant, R. & Burrow, M (1995) 'Fleet Air Arm Aircraft 1939 to 1945' Published by Air Britain (Historians) Ltd, 1995 ISBN: 085130 232 7

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