Eastern Aircraft (Grumman) FM-2 Wildcat

N5833 (BuNo 86819)

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Taken at Tauranga Airport, 23 March, 2002. With a white patch below the tail, a single yellow band round the rear fuselage and each wing, and white patches on the outer rear half of the upper starboard wing and lower port wing, the markings indicate an aircraft belonging to the USS Wake Island as part of Carrier Division 23.



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