Photo by Steve Kraus.

Photo by Steve Kraus.

Operated as a water bomber. Delivered new to Flying Tiger line as N34955 on 01 Sep 1953. To Northwest Orient on 30 Nov 1953. To Zantop on 16 Sep 1961. To Saturn Airways on 17 Jun 1966. To TAISA as TI-1079C in Nov 1970. To SIS-Q Flying services as N48286 on 04 Jul 1975. Reregistered to N777SQ 19 Aug 1975. To Misty Air on 08 Nov 1979 and reregistered N12347 on 04 Apr 1980. Later to Intak, Matomco Oil Co and Aerolaska. To Northern Pacific Transport in Sep 1986. To Everts Air Fuel in Oct 1992. Registration cancelled 04 Jun 2013 and in 2020 was in the process of being converted into a house.

Now with the Cactus Air Force Wings and Wheels Museum at Carson City, Nevada.

Last seen derelict at Lanseria (South Africa) as EL-WNH in 2014.

Crashed at Banning, California, on October 5, 1998.

Scrapped

Broken up in 1997.

Reregistered N12347 in 1980.

The Tigercat was a high-performance carrier-borne fighter flown by the USN and USMC from 1944 to 1954. Although too late to see combat service in WW2, it did so in Korea. This example was originally BuAer no. 80374 and at the time of this photo was part of Sis-Q's varied water-bomber fleet. Under restoration to flying condition at Chino in 2011, should be one of six flyable and 12 surviving altogether

Shown with belly spray tank whilst serving Sis-Q at Santa Rosa in the fire-fighting role. Now operates as a warbird in USN markings.