• Aircraft:

  Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat

• Reg: 41834 photos
• Serial #:

  A-3100

• Airline: United States - US Navy (USN)
• Photo Date: Jun 05, 2016
• Uploaded: Nov 29, 2016
• Other Location - NASM Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center, USA - Virginia

On display in the Boeing Aviation Hangar room at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, National Air and Space Museum. Hellcat Bu.No. 41834 was built at Bethpage in Feb. 1944. Assigned to VF-15 aboard USS Hornet (CV-12), it made its way to Hawaii. It was then assigned to VF-3 and VF-83. The Hellcat was converted into a target drone and used to measure radiation for the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946.

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