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    Airframe Family: Grumman F9F/F-9 Panther/Cougar
    Latest Model:DF-9E Panther
    Last Military Serial:126275 USN
    Compressed ID:Grumman DF-9E sn 126275 USN
    Latest Owner or Location:USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile, Alabama

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F9F-5P.

    Circa 1950

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 126275.

    Circa 1951

    Transferred to Composite Photographic Squadron 61 (VC-61), NAS Miramar, CA.

    2 July 1956

    Transferred to Fighter Photographic Squadron 61 (VFP-61), NAS Miramar, CA.
    Operated with markings: VFP-61, 126275, PP
    Unit redesignated.

    By July 1957

    Transferred to Utility Squadron 1 (VU-1), NAS Barbers Point, Oahu, HI.
    Operated with markings: UA-38

    By July 1957

    Converted to a F9F-5KD.

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as DF-9E.

    31 August 1964

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    By 1987

    Placed on display with Naval Air Museum Barbers Point/Hawaii Museum of Flying, Kalaeloa Airport/John Rodgers Field (formerly Barbers Point NAS), Ewa Beach, Oahu, HI.
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    By 1990

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    11 November 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at a seaplane hanger on NAS Pensacola

    By November 1993

    Loaned to USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile, AL.
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    By November 1993

    Markings Applied: 41, PP
    In markings of VC-3, named Merlin.

    9 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    4 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    4 April 2017


    Photographer: Larry Johnson

    4 November 2018


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    4 November 2018


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    26 September 2023


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Robert Nichols
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