INDEX OF PRESERVED AIRCRAFT TYPES USED BY THE FAA

Grumman F4F/FM-2 Martlet/Wildcat

Type

Total Number 2000

FAA notes 1999-2000

Threat Status 1999-2000

Changes
1999-2000

Grumman Wildcat

61 total (?)

23 airworthy
37 static
(inc 3 wrecks)

7 known wartime Fleet Air Arm Wildcat are preserved.

Not known if other existing US preserved examples have FAA history. Wartime FAA aircraft include:

FAA Martlet I AL246
FAA sqdns: 802 12.40, 882 7.41-3.42, 768 till 1.44.

Wildcat V JV482
FAA sdqns: 882 sqdn 1944

JV730
FAA sqdns: 881 sqdn 1944, 853 sqdn 1945

JV752
FAA sqdns: A&AEE Boscombe Down 1945-46

JV900
FAA sqdns: RNARY Coimbatore

Wreck of FAA wildcat, Porquerolles (France)

Bu3872 on loan to Fleet Air Arm squadron 892 at Norfolk, Va in 1942.

4 under restoration

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Grumman Wildcat
Status	Civil Registration Nunber	Serial Number s/n	Type	Markings	Owner/Operator	Condition/Notes
	N909WJ	Bu46867	FM-2	Marked with "USN"	Flying A Services, North Weald (UK)	Airworthy -restoring
	G-RUMW ex-N4845V	Bu86711 c/n: 5765	FM-2	Marked with Fleet Air Arm colours and D-Day invasion stripes with Royal Navy code "F". See photos	The Fighter Collection, Duxford (UK) Ex Chennault Air Museum, California (USA)	Airworthy the only example of its type flying today in Europe.
	N12260	Bu12260	F4F-3	Marked as "USN 12260/F-3"	A & T Recovery Inc, Batavia IL (USA)	Airworthy
	N3210D	Bu12296	F4F-3	Marked in US colours with code "F-2". See photo	Olympic Flight Museum, Olympia WA (USA)	Airworthy
	N315E	Bu47030	FM-2	Marked as "USN 47030/F-13"	Colonial Field Museum, Toughkenamon PA (USA)	Airworthy
	N551TC	Bu47160	FM-2	Marked and named as "USN 7/Old Fang"	Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston TX (USA)	Airworthy
	N681S	Bu55585	FM-2	Marked as "USN 55585/F-15"	American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum/C onfederate Air Force HQ - Col Bob Peters (USA)	Airworthy
	N47201	Bu55627 c/n: 3268	FM-2	Marked as "USN 47201/8"	Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs CA (USA)	Airworthy
	N1352N	c/n:5831	FM-2	-	Private: BD Roberts, New London, PA (USA)	Airworthy
	N29FG	Bu74560	FM-2	Marked as "USN 74560"	Cinema Air Museum, Palomar Airport Rd, Carlbad, CA (USA)	Airworthy
	N4629V	Bu86564	FM-2	-	Yanks Air Museum, Chino, CA (USA)	Airworthy? Registered 1996
	N86572	Bu86572	FM-2	-	Warhawk Air Museum, Boise, ID (USA)	Airworthy
	N1PP	Bu86581	FM-2	Marked as "86581/1"	Kalamazoo Air Zoo, Kalamazoo MI (USA)	Airworthy
	N11FE	Bu86680	FM-2	Marked and named as "5134/USS Tulagi"	Richard Foote, Summerland Key FL (USA)	Airworthy
	N49JC	Bu86690 c/n: 51-235	FM-2	-	Olympic Flight Museum, Olympia WA (USA)	Airworthy
	N222FM	Bu86741 c/n: 5975 Built 1953	FM-2	Marked as "USN 4"	Fantasy of Flight, Weeks Air Museum, Tamiami FL (USA)	Airworthy
	N6290C	Bu86746 c/n: 5804	FM-2	Marked as "USN 5"	Frasca Air Museum, Urbana IL (USA) EAA Museum Oshkosh, WI (USA)	Airworthy
	N12371	Bu86750	FM-2	-	Private: JB Barnett, Arabi, TX (USA)	Airworthy
	N58918	Bu86754	FM-2	-	Erickson Group Ltd, Beaverton, OR (USA)	Airworthy
		Bu86774	FM-2	-	Planes of Fame Chino, CA (USA)	Airworthy
	N5HP	Bu86777	FM-2	"USN 5/Kimberly Brooke"	Breckenridge Aviation Museum, Breckenridge TX (USA)	Airworthy
	N5833	Bu86819 c/n: 5833	FM-2	Marked as "USN 00"	Confederate Air Force - Col Bob Reiss (USA)	Airworthy
	N18P	Bu86956 c/n: 6014	FM-2 wildcat	carries the markings of a FM-2 from VC-70 with codes "17", a composite squadron which operated from the escort carrier U.S.S. Salamaua (CVE-96) from May to September 1945. See photos Previously coded as "Bu86960"	Cavanaugh Flight Museum (USA) One of the last Wildcats built and was accepted by the U.S. Navy only days before the official Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay. Was was the Oshkosh Fly In Grand Champion in 1979 Ex Joseph G. Mabee, Midland TX, USA till 1995	Airworthy
	-	XV591	F4F-3 Wildcat.	-	RAF Museum Cosford - The Aerospace Museum, Cosford (UK) Former Fleet Air Arm aircraft	Static
	-	XV424	F4F-3 Wildcat.	-	Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon (UK) Former Fleet Air Arm aircraft	Static
	-	XV474	F4F Wildcat.	-	Imperial War Museum, Duxford (UK) Former Fleet Air Arm aircraft	Static
	-	ZE359	F4F-3 Wildcat.	-	Imperial War Museum, Duxford, (UK)	Static
	-	AL246	F4F Martlet I	-	Fleet Air Arm Museum, Ilchester, (UK) Former Fleet Air Arm aircraft Martlet I AL246 FAA sdqns: 802 sqdn 12.1940, 882 sqdn 7.41-3.1942, 768 sqdn till 1.1944. Yeovilton in FAAM	Static
	-	XT596	F4F-3 Wildcat.	-	Fleet Air Arm Museum, Ilchester, (UK) Former Fleet Air Arm aircraft	Static
	-	-	F4F-3 Wildcat.	-	Newark Air Museum, Newark, (UK)	Static
	-	JV482	FM-1 Wildcat V	See UAS restoration photos	Ulster Aviation Society Heritage Centre, Langford Lodge airfield (Northern Ireland, UK) Former Fleet Air Arm aircraft Wildcat V JV482 FAA sdqns: 882 sqdn 1944, ditched Lough Beg, Portmore (UK) 24.12.1944. Lifted out of Lough by RAF helicopter April 1984	Static - rebuilding complete fuselage
	-	??	F4F-3 Wildcat	-	Tilamook Naval Air Station Museum, OR (USA)
	-	??	F4F-3 Wildcat.	-	Dick Hansen warbirds (USA)	Static recovered from Lake Michigan
	-	??	FM-2 Wildcat.	-	Air Classics Museum, Chicago, IL (USA)	Static
	-	Bu: 003872	F4F-3 [Martlet III equivalent]	-	National Museum of Naval Aviation NAS Pensacola (USA) Aircraft on loan to Fleet Air Arm squadron 892 sqdn at Norfolk, Va in 1942. Recovered from Lake Michigan	Static - restored
	-	Bu: 003950	FM-2 Wildcat.	-	San Diego Aerospace Museum, CA (USA)	Static under restoration
	-	Bu: 003956	FM-2 Wildcat.	-	Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum/USS Yorktown, Mt. Pleasant, SC (USA).	Static
	-	Bu: 003969	F4F-3 Wildcat.	-	San Diego Aerospace Museum CA, (USA) National Museum of Naval Aviation NAS Pensacola (USA)	Static
	-	Bu:004039	F4F-3 Wildcat.	-	National Museum of Naval Aviation NAS Pensacola (USA) Recovered from Lake Michigan. Displayed in wrecked "underwater mock-up"	Static display- unrestored wreck
	-	Bu: 011828	F4F-3 Wildcat.	-	National Museum of Naval Aviation NAS Pensacola (USA)	Static - under restoration
	-	Bu: 012068	F4F-3 Wildcat.	-	Vila War Museum, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands Wildcat wreck from the jungle at Tasimboko, Guadacanal	Static -Wildcat wreck
	-	Bu: 012114	FM-2 Wildcat.	-	United States Marine Corps Air/Ground, Quantico MCAS VA (USA)	Static
	-	Bu: 012290	F4F-3 Wildcat.	-	National Museum of Naval Aviation NAS Pensacola (USA)	Static - under restoration
	-	Bu: 012297	FM-2 Wildcat.	-	Cradle of Aviation Museum, Mitchell Field, NY (USA)	Static
	-	Bu: 012320	FM-2 Wildcat.	-	MCAS El Toro Historical Foundation, CA (USA)	Static
	-	Bu: 014994	F4F-3 Wildcat.	see photos	Valiant Air Command Titusville FL (USA) Former underwater wreck	Static - under restoration
	-	Bu: 015392 c/n:	FM-1 Wildcat.	Navy blue-gray camouflage used early in the war; the markings were patterned after an FM-i, number E-10, that operated from the CVE U.S S. Breton in the Pacific in mid-1943. See photo	NASM, Smithsonian (USA)	Static
	-	Bu: 016089 c/n: 401	FM-2 Wildcat.	US Navy Pacific markings	National Museum of Naval Aviation NAS Pensacola (USA)	Static - restored ex in store
	-	Bu: 016278	FM-2 Wildcat.	-	National Museum of Naval Aviation NAS Pensacola (USA)	Static
	-	018634	FM-2 Wildcat.	-	MCAS El Toro Historical Foundation, CA (USA)	Static - in storage
FAA jv687-jv736 46942-47437	-	Bu: 047030 FAA: jv730	FM-2 Wildcat VI.	-	Colonial Flying Corps Museum, Toughkenamon, PA (USA) Former Fleet Air Arm aircraft JV730 FAA sqdns: 881 sqdn 1944, 853 sqdn 1945	Static
	-	Bu: 055052	FM-2 Wildcat.	-	National Museum of Naval Aviation NAS Pensacola (USA)	Static- in store
FAA jv737-jv756 55110-554409	-	Bu: 055404 FAA: JV752	FM-2 Wildcat VI.	-	National Museum of Naval Aviation NAS Pensacola (USA) Former Fleet Air Arm aircraft JV752 FAA sqdns: A&AEE Boscombe Down 1945-46	Static
	-	Bu: 074120	FM-2 Wildcat.	-	New England Air Museum CT (USA)	Static
	-	Bu: 074161	FM-2 Wildcat.	-	Admiral Nimitz Museum and Historical Center, Fredericksburg TX (USA)	Static
FAA jv877-jv901 74509-74658	-	Bu: 074512 FAA: jv900	FM-2 Wildcat VI.	-	Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA (USA) Former Fleet Air Arm aircraft JV900 FAA sqdns: RNARY Coimbatore	Static
	-	Bu: 086741	FM-2 Wildcat.	-	Fantasy of Flight, Polk City, FL (USA)	Static
	-	Bu: 086747	FM-2 Wildcat.	-	National Museum of Naval Aviation NAS Pensacola (USA)	Static
	-	Bu: 086773	FM-23 Wildcat.	-	Colonial Flying Corps Museum, Toughkenamon, PA (USA)	Static
	-	Bu: 086956	FM-2 Wildcat.	-	Fantasy of Flight, Polk City, FL (USA)	Static
	-	Not known	Wildcat	-	Offshore Le Lavandou, Porquerolles (France) Fleet Air Air Wildcat wreck in Port Cros NP	In-situ wreck in Port Cross National Park

Associations and reunions

FURTHER INFORMATION
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 Wildcat
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.
Aviation Enthusiast Corner AeroWeb Museum/Aircraft Reference F4F Page	Grumman F4F-4 'Wildcat' museum locator in USA and Canada only
Das Virtuelle Luftfahrtmuseum	Details of preserved Wildcat in European museums [in German]
Great Lakes Shipwreck Research Group --Warbirds!	F4F Wildcat - plan to find, take, and refurb.Discussion Board
	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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