Grumman Cats -Wildcat, Hellcat, Beacat Tigercat.

[phantomphan1974]

CAF Wildcat

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Engine work on Beatcat

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Old Harwthorne Airfaire shot

[Midnight Mover]

Old Harwthorne Airfaire shot

Nice, looks like this one should be racing at Reno.

Don't remember seeing this one. Do you have any history info?

[Josh]

Nice, looks like this one should be racing at Reno.

Don't remember seeing this one. Do you have any history info?

It's a repro of one of two civilian bearcats, G-58A Gulfhawk 4.

The original was produced July 1947 and was sold to Al Williams and was based at Washington National Airport for a while. It had a JATO bottle that was demonstrated in a brief first public flight. At the 17th Annual Miami Air Maneuvers Show in January 1949 Al Williams was flying towards his home airdrome when he found out he had a landing gear problem. He flew back south to Simmons-Knott Airport at New Bern, NC and made an emergency landing there. On roll out the left main gear collapsed and the Bearcat settled onto its belly rupturing the aux tank and trailed gas behind the stricken plane. Bystanders helped Al Williams out of the cockpit but had no way to extinguish the flames that burned the plane to the ground.

I think that the one in Damon's pic crashed at Oshkosh in 93 or 94. I don't think it's flying anymore. It's registered to Steve Hinton, same guy who owns N198F at Chino. I don't think they are the same planes cause their c/n don't match.

[Midnight Mover]

Ah yes Steve Hinton... the man with lots of airplanes, and quite the racing history, thanks

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F7F-3N Tigercat "Big Bossman" Race #1 reno 2007

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Provenance Fighter Sales F8F-2 Bearcat N14WB "Tempus Fugit 2" Reno 2007

[WARBIRD KEITH]

Some Bearcat fans

[phantomphan1974]

Bearcat at TOA

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[phantomphan1974]

Just want to thank Keith for the heads up and Jason for taking a couple minutes to chat a little.  Heard  you had a small crowd watching you at Pt Fermin.

[NikonGuy]

Pretty cool shots Damon...