F4U-4 Corsair BuNo.97320

[shuck]

Was F4U-4 Corsair BuNo.97320 once registered as N86432 with Bob Bean in 1959.

Thanks

[zorro7]

Shuck:

Good day!

Yes it was!! c.1959. It also used that N Reg # on the ferry flight to Tgu, Honduras c. Dec '61. It later became FAH 616. It's located at San Diego Museum or in N. Dakota. If you have pics of it plz post them.

Mr. Bob Bean will be remembered forever in the Warbird Word for making things happen with those birds! You'll never go wrong restoring a Corsair nowadays!

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[shuck]

Thanks zorro7 .... did you find any photographs of Mr Bob Bean!

[zorro7]

Shuck:

Good day!

No yet! I've been looking deep into the P-38 archives also. Will keep you posted.

p.s I believe seeing one of him closing the canopy of a P-38 in S. Calif c. 1960s.Tks

Where is the fuselage of Buno 97320 nowadays XFAH 616? Do you know??

[Warbirdnerd]

Where is the fuselage of Buno 97320 nowadays XFAH 616? Do you know??

It is part of Ken McBride's Collection in California.

[zorro7]

Brian:

Good Day! Tks for the data & info. Plz ck your PM.

[zorro9]

Shuck/F4U Folks:

Good day!

Just curious plz tell me where did you get the info/data on F4U-4 N86432??

p.s This one just in for you as in CNN... the pic of the man himself in his younger days at Long Island, NY c 1957. Via AEC
Plz look it up in the Bob Bean thread!!