Navy Serial Number Search Results


BuNo Criteria: 2531
Data last updated: Tue Mar 15 09:25:34 2016
2512 ... 2538 (EXACT MATCH)
Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat
Model G-36
2512, 2517, 2524, 2526, 2530, 2537 modified as F4F-3P photo recon version.
2519 w/o Jun 11, 1941
2520 modified to F4F-3P.  With VD-2 destroyed on ground by explosion of depth charges at NAS Hampton 
Roads, VA Sep 17, 1943.
2521 w/o Mar 24, 1941
2523 loaned to 892 Sqdn Royal Navy while working up at Norfolk, VA
Jul 18,1942.  Returned to USN Sep 12, 1942
2527 (VF-42) lost May 4-8, 1942, Battle of Coral Sea
2528 (VF-42) lost May 4-8, 1942, Battle of Coral Sea
2529 (VF-42) lost at sea Jan 8, 1942.
2531 (VF-42) lost May 4-8, 1942, Battle of Coral Sea.  From carrier
Yorktown downed Zero May 8, 1942 and low on fuel landed on
damaged carrier Lexington and sank with her.
2535 w/o Feb 26, 1941
2536 loaned to 890 Sqdn Royal Navy while working up at Norfolk, VA
Jul 3, 1942.  Returned to USN Aug 25, 1942.
2538 assigned to NAS Norfolk, VA.  Assigned to NACA Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley 
Field, VA Apr 15, 1941 to Aug 22, 1941.  Assigned to NAS Norfolk, VA.

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