List of surviving Grumman F4F Wildcats

Survivors

F4F-3 in Guadalcanal Diorama at the Pacific Aviation Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii USA

A Grumman Martlet/Wildcat preserved at the Imperial War Museum Duxford

Solomon Islands

On display

F4F-4

• 12068 - displayed unrestored at the Vilu War Museum in Honiara.^[1]

United Kingdom

Martlet I undergoing preservation at the Fleet Air Arm Museum.

Airworthy

FM-2

• 86711 - The Fighter Collection in Imperial War Museum Duxford.^[2]

On display

Martlet I (F4F-4)

• AL246 – Fleet Air Arm Museum in RNAS Yeovilton.^[3]

Under restoration

FM-1

• JV482 - for display at the Ulster Aviation Society (Long Kesh Hangar), Lisburn, Northern Ireland.^[4]

FM-2

• 86690 - to airworthiness in The Shuttleworth Collection at the Shuttleworth (Old Warden) Aerodrome in Bedfordshire.^[5]

United States

Airworthy

F4F-3

• 12260 - Lewis Air Legends in San Antonio, Texas.^[6][7]

FM-2

• 16203 - Michael Gillian in Downers Grove, Illinois.^[8]
• 47030 - Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia.^[9][10]
• 47160 - FM-2 LCC in Lewes, Delaware.^[11]
• 55627 - Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs, California.^[12][13]
• 74560 - Comanche Warbirds Inc. in Houston, Texas.^[14]
• 86564 - Yanks Air Museum in Chino, California.^[15][16]
• 86572 - Thomas Camp in Sausalito, California.^[17]
  

  F4F FM-2, tail number N18P, from the Cavanaugh Flight Museum, at the Alliance Air Show in Ft. Worth, Texas.
• 86680 - Collings Foundation in Stow, Massachusetts.^[18][19] unique in having a passenger cabin. It is shown to be able to carry 4 passengers.
• 86741 - Fantasy of Flight in Polk City, Florida.^[20][21]
• 86746 - Frasca Air Museum in Champaign, Illinois.^[22]
• 86754 - Erickson Aircraft Collection in Madras, Oregon.^[23][24]
• 86774 - Skyway Aero Inc. in Reno, Nevada.^[25]
• 86777 - Texas Flying Legends Museum in Houston, Texas.^[26][27]
• 86819 - Commemorative Air Force (Colonel Carter Teeters) in San Diego, California.^[28][29]
• 86956 - Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison, Texas.^[30][31]

On display

F4F-3

• 3872 - National Naval Aviation Museum at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.^[32]
• 4039 - displayed unrestored in a simulated underwater diorama at the National Naval Aviation Museum at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.^[33]
• 12296 - Pacific Aviation Museum at Ford Island, Hawaii.^[34]
• 12297 - Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York. It is on loan from the National Naval Aviation Museum at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.^[35]
• 12320 - Chicago O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois as a memorial to Navy Cross and Medal of Honor recipient and airport namesake, LCDR Edward O'Hare. It is on loan from the National Naval Aviation Museum at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.^[36]

F4F-3A

• 3956 - Patriots Point Naval Museum in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.^[37]
• 3969 - National Naval Aviation Museum at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.^[38]

F4F-4

• 11828 - San Diego Aerospace Museum in San Diego, California. It is on loan from the National Naval Aviation Museum at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.^[39]
• 12114 - National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Virginia.^[40]

FM-1

• 14994 - Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum at Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville, Florida. It is on loan from the National Naval Aviation Museum at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.^[41]
• 15392 - National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C..^[42]

FM-2

• 16089 - National Naval Aviation Museum at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.^[43]
• 16161 - displayed partially restored at the Pima Air & Space Museum adjacent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. It crashed in Lake Michigan on April 12, 1945, and is on loan from the Military Aircraft Restoration Corp in Anaheim, California^[44]
• 16278 - Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, California.^[45]
• 74120 - New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks, Connecticut.^[46]
• 74161 - National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredricksburg, Texas. It is on loan from the National Naval Aviation Museum at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.^[47]
• 74512 - Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington.^[48][49]
• 86581 - Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan.^[50]
• 86747 - National Naval Aviation Museum at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.^[51]

Under restoration

F4F-3

• 12290 - for static display at the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, California.^[52]

FM-2

• 16161 - to airworthiness by Pima Air & Space Museum, adjacent to Davis-Monthan AFB, in Tucson, Arizona. It is registered to Military Aircraft Restoration Corporation in Anaheim, California.^[53][54]
• 55052 - for static display at the USS Hornet (CV-12) at the former Naval Air Station Alameda in Alameda, California.^[55]
• 57039 - for static display at the Glenview Hangar One Museum at the former Naval Air Station Glenview, Glenview, Cook County, Illinois. Restoration is being done by Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum in Kalamazoo, Michigan.^[56] While conducting training on 28 December 1944, the FM2 Wildcat malfunctioned and rolled off the deck of the training aircraft carrier USS Sable. The pilot, ENS William Forbes, escaped from the aircraft before it sank into Lake Michigan. In early December 2012, the aircraft was moved 45 miles under the water to a safe harbor in Waukegan, IL. The Wildcat fighter was lifted from the water on Friday 7 December 2012.
• 86773 - to airworthiness by the Bruce Roberts in New London, Pennsylvania.^[57]

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