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PostPosted: Mon Apr 27, 2020 12:21 pm 
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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

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BuNo 94517 F6F-5K Hellcat Target Drone

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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.


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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!


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The Vigilantes are still there.

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