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  • Description: Chance Vought F4U-4
  • Bureau number : Bu#97264
  • Operational markings : U.S. Navy VF 192 #210-B ; formerly painted under Ghost Riders #403
  • Modern registration : F-AZVJ
  • Author: Tristan Nitot

Picture taken at Luc sur Mer, Calvados, Normandy, France on 2005-07-17 during an aerobatic show

HISTORY

F4U-4

Bu # 97264

c/n 9418

Status: Airworthy

  • accepted: 22 October 1945
  • Stored: 1945-1949
  • assigned: VMF-223 (January 1950-July 1950)
  • assigned: VMF-225 (November 1950 – January 1952)
  • assigned: VMF-211 (January 1952-April 1953)
  • assigned: VMAT-332 (April 1953-November 1953)
  • assigned: VMAT-332 (November 1953-January 1954)
  • assigned: NART St. Louis (July 1953-February 1955)
  • assigned: NART Olathe (October 1955-June 1956)
  • SOC: October 1956 – NAS Litchfield Park
    • Owned: Robert Bean, Hereford, Arizona (1959-1973)
      • Registered: N5218V
      • Painted: K 11
    • Owned: Pacific Warbirds Museum, Half Moon Bay, California (1973-1977)
    • Owned: Eugene H. Akers, San Diego, California (1977-1994)
      • Painted: A 403 (VF-142 Ghostriders - USS Boxer)
    • Owned: Charles R. Hall, Pinedale, WY (April 1994-1996)
      • Painted: B 210 (VF-192 The Golden Dragons - USS Princeton)
    • Owned: Corsair Warbird Ltd, Dijon-Longvic, France (1996 - 2008)
      • Registered: F-AZVJ
    • Owned: Dan Friedkin, Houston, TX (2008 - current)
      • Registered: N10DF


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