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F6F-5K Hellcat BuNo 9451 Remains at China Lake

Mon Apr 27, 2020 12:21 pm

Anyone know the disposition of this one? Could it still be out there?!

ImageF6F-5K Hellcat drone BuNo 94517 by G. Verver, on Flickr

ImageF6F-5K Hellcat BuNo 94517 by G. Verver, on Flickr

Re: F6F-5K Hellcat BuNo 9451 Remains at China Lake

Mon Apr 27, 2020 1:44 pm

BuNo 94517 F6F-5K Hellcat Target Drone

http://www.chinalakealumni.org/Aircraft.htm
12 Sep 1958 - SOC 3MF2 - Target drone expenditure

Re: F6F-5K Hellcat BuNo 9451 Remains at China Lake

Mon Apr 27, 2020 4:54 pm

On my IPad ,when I touch the top photo it takes me to the Flickr photo and when I touch the arrow on left side to see previous photo, there is the B29 Doc in need of rescue. Going to either side of the hellcat photo is a lot of stuff.

Re: F6F-5K Hellcat BuNo 9451 Remains at China Lake

Mon Apr 27, 2020 6:10 pm

Probably not there any longer. A lot, if not all of those were recovered. There was a post showing a number of different wrecks in a Midwest yard in maybe 2002-2006 on the WIX?

Rumor mill (and old WIX postings) say the Hellcat residue ended up in Green Bay and then went to Jim Fry in Minneapolis. That's the last I heard of them!

Re: F6F-5K Hellcat BuNo 9451 Remains at China Lake

Tue Apr 28, 2020 9:29 pm

The Vigilantes are still there.
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