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HONORING OUR HEROES
West Central Tribune — Willmar, Minn.
Contributed / Scott Guyette / Sleeping Dog Productions Steve Hinton Jr. pilots “Death ‘N Destruction,” a restored Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat fighter from World War II (foreground), accompanied by Evan Fagen of Fagen Fighters Restoration in the “Sweet Revenge,” a P51 fighter, in March 2021. The Hellcat won a Gold Lindy award at the EAA AirVenture 2021 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in July 2021.
Fagen Fighters debuts new WWII fighter plane acquisition at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2021, earns Gold Lindy award
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By Kit Grode West Central Tribune
he Fagen Fighters WWII Museum in Granite Falls, Minnesota, has another footnote to add to its history books. This summer, at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2021 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the museum picked up a Gold Lindy award for its entry in the World War II Warbirds category: a Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat. The Grumman F6F Hellcat is a
single-person, carrier-based fighter aircraft built between 1943 and 1945, and was used by the United States Navy and Marine Corps primarily in the second half of the Pacific War. It was designed to replace the F4F Wildcat, and 12,275 were built over two years. The Fagen Fighters’ plane is a variant of the standard F6F design — the F6F-5 Hellcat is also known as a British Hellcat F. Mk. II — and is one of seven of its kind known to be in airworthy condition in the United States.
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