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    Airframe Family: Grumman F4F/FM Wildcat
    Latest Model:FM-2 Wildcat
    Last Military Serial:47030 USN
    Last Civil Registration:N315E
    Latest Owner or Location:Gerald W. Yagen, Virginia Beach, VA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a FM-2 by General Motors Eastern Aircraft Division at Baltimore, MD, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 47030.

    From 20 December 1962 to By 1972

    To Alexis I. Dupont, Wilmington, DE with new c/r N315E.

    24 June 1965

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL315E (FM-2, 47030) issued.

    22 April 1970

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL315E (FM-2, 47030) issued.

    By 1973

    To Alexis I. Dupont/Colonial Flying Corps Museum, Toughkenamon, PA keeping c/r N315E.

    Markings Applied: 47030, F-13

    Markings Applied: F-1

    Based at Colonial Flying Corps Museum, New Garden Airport, Toughkenamon, PA.
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    7 May 2009

    To Training Services Inc, Virginia Beach, VA keeping c/r N315E.

    7 May 2009

    Based at Military Aviation Museum and Fighter Factory, Virginia Beach Airport, Virginia Beach, VA.
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    Markings Applied: P-13

    17 June 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Hamilton Air Show hosted by the Canadian Warplane Heritage in Mount Hope, Ontario.

    17 June 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Hamilton Air Show hosted by the Canadian Warplane Heritage in Mount Hope, Ontario.

    17 June 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Hamilton Air Show hosted by the Canadian Warplane Heritage in Mount Hope, Ontario.

    17 June 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Hamilton Air Show hosted by the Canadian Warplane Heritage in Mount Hope, Ontario.

    18 June 2011


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinabold
    Notes: Taken at the 2011 Hamilton Air Show, Canada

    10 July 2013

    To Gerald W. Yagen, Virginia Beach, VA keeping c/r N315E.

    8 April 2015

    26 August 2017

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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Patrick Carry
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