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PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 6:28 pm 
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With all the talk about Wildcats here the past several days, does anyone have a list of where all the survivors are; both static and flying? Anyone know how the restoration is coming along with the Museum of Flight's example?

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http://www.warbirdregistry.org/f4fregis ... istry.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_su ... F_Wildcats

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Didn't see the three in Uvalde.
On the Wikipedia site anyway.


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mike furline wrote:
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/f4fregistry/f4fregistry.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_su ... F_Wildcats

I never thought about checking wikipedia. Lots of good info there. The warbird registry is way out of date.

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Isn't one of the U.S airworthy Wildcats now at Old Warden/Shuttlewoth collection
Listing airworthy Wildcats in the U.K now on 2 ?

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The Wildcat now with the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden (formerly on display at the Muesum of Flight) is not flyable at this time, but will be undergoing a thorough restoration to fly following the completion of other projects in the collection (I believe that being namely the Spitfire Mk.V). This aircraft is FM-2 BuNo 86690.


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JohnTerrell wrote:
The Wildcat now with the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden (formerly on display at the Muesum of Flight) is not flyable at this time, but will be undergoing a thorough restoration to fly following the completion of other projects in the collection (I believe that being namely the Spitfire Mk.V). This aircraft is FM-2 BuNo 86690.

Expect to see it in the air sometime around 2020


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What about the one being restored in Northern Ireland ?


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