• Aircraft:

  General Motors FM-2 Wildcat

• Reg: 74512 photos
• Serial #:

  4704

• Airline: United States - US Navy (USN)
• Photo Date: Jun 16, 2016
• Uploaded: Apr 10, 2020
• Seattle Boeing Field/King County - KBFI, USA - Washington

On display at the Museum of Flight. This aircraft was built by the Eastern Aircraft Division of General Motors, which built the majority of Wildcats. It is painted with a shamrock on the tail to represent a Wildcat embarked on CVE-84 Shamrock Bay that took part in the Philippines and Okinawa campaigns in 1945. After 1943, Wildcats operated from escort carriers, having made way for the Hellcat aboard fleet carriers.

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