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This would have been a nice image if an adequately scanned copy of the print had been made. It was for its time a good composition and capture by a US Navy publicity photographer. Sadly, the flash of the background lighting when the original printed image was itself photographed degrades its quality significantly.

E-1B Tracer BuNo 147211 VAW-111 ‘Hunters’. Unit shore code RR. Side number 011. From USS Hornet January 1970. www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/E-1B.html Grumman WF-2 (E-1B) Tracer BuNo 147211 …………………………………….. 1976-77: RVAW-110 as NM-011. June 25,1977: Put into storage at Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) Arizona. Assigned five digit MASDC Process Control Number (PCN): 1E057. May 29, 1978: Struck off charge. Nov. 9, 1981: Sold off as surplus to Consolidated Aero Corp which became United Aeronautical Corporation, Tucson, AZ. Last noted Aug 2002. Belatedly salvaged.

E-1B Tracer BuNo 147211 VAW-111 ‘Hunters’. Unit shore code RR. Side number 011. From USS Hornet January 1970. www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/E-1B.html Grumman WF-2 (E-1B) Tracer BuNo 147211 …………………………………….. 1976-77: RVAW-110 as NM-011. June 25,1977: Put into storage at Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) Arizona. Assigned five digit MASDC Process Control Number (PCN): 1E057. May 29, 1978: Struck off charge. Nov. 9, 1981: Sold off as surplus to Consolidated Aero Corp which became United Aeronautical Corporation, Tucson, AZ. Last noted Aug 2002. Belatedly salvaged.