Roger's Hellcat

Here's the same assembly after the cowl face was attached for final fittment. The cowl inner panels were painted interior green on most Hellcats, though toward the end of their service careers in the US Navy and Navy Reserve squadrons other colors, such as zinc chromate may have been substituted. The last survivors were retired by the mid-to-late fifties. Many Hellcat airframes were converted to drones for use in missle testing and a few of those lasted into the very early sixties at NWTF China Lake and NMTC Point Mugu (both in California).