F4U-4 Corsair BuNo.97320

shuck · **Posted:** Sun Jun 02, 2013 7:18 am

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

Thanks

zorro7 · **Joined:** Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:07 pm **Posts:** 483

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!

shuck · **Posted:** Tue Jun 04, 2013 1:22 am

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

zorro7 · **Joined:** Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:07 pm **Posts:** 483

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 · **Joined:** Fri Apr 30, 2004 7:34 pm **Posts:** 2923

zorro7 wrote:

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

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

zorro7 · **Joined:** Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:07 pm **Posts:** 483

Brian:

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

zorro9 · **Joined:** Fri Aug 09, 2013 10:11 pm **Posts:** 671

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!!

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