| | (MSN 182-54) remanufactured from 42-84227. Delivered 05Feb52 to Otis AFB, Mashpee, MA. 3040th Aircraft Storage Squadron, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ; departed 22Jan56. Delivered by US Navy escort carrier to Pauillac, Bordeaux, France. SFERMA Bordeaux-Mérignac; modified for counter insurgency (COIN) operations in North Africa. EAA 601, Chateaudun, France. To French Air Force/Armée de l'Air Dec57. SOC Jul65.
Amicale Jean-Baptist Salis, La Ferte-Alais, France. Registration F-BVQD reserved Nov78; not taken up. Registered 01Dec82 as F-AZBK. Rebuilt by Salis Aviation with MSN SAM2-367 as a replica Mitsubishi A6M Zero. Appeared in the movie Empire of the Sun [1987]. Reregistered Jun87 as F-WZBK; reregistered 1989 as F-AZBK. Reregistered F-AZHD 02Dec92, current [Jun16]. Rebuilt by Salis Aviation as a replica NA-68 with MSN SA-30. Rebuilt as a replica F6F Hellcat. Shipped to Vietnam. Used in making of film DIEN BIEN PHU (1992). The film was shot in Vietnam, north of Hanoi, in Xuan Mai. The film employed two North American T-6s slightly modified to look like the Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat of Aéronavale. The top of the rudder was made more square, the second seat was removed and the back of the fuselage raised, the sliding canopy simplified. The engine was equipped with a three-bladed propeller. Flies as French Aéronavale 11 Flotille [11F], serial number 79413 |
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