You guys do realize that that Hellcat was actually flown in combat with VF-6 by Lt Alex Vraciu in 1943 where he got 9 kills. He later flew it on a bond tour
It's with the Fighter Collection in England. From their website
"TFC's Hellcat, built in 1943, is the only one flying outside of America and appears in the colours of US Navy ace Lt Alex Vraciu who flew this particular aircraft as part of the Navy Fighting squadron VF-6, accounting for nine enemy aircraft in the process.
With only 115.7 hours of flying time on the clock, the machine was retired from service with VF-6, and was despatched to the newly formed VF-18 who were training at Hilo in the Hawiian Islands, wearing the same markings as she can be seen in today.
Another two hundred hours were put on her with VF-18 in the hands of many pilots who were later to become Navy Air aces - but for some inexplicable reason she was retired with only 318 flying hours on her, and transferred to the Naval Air Technical Training College (NATTC) in Chicago on the 29th August 1944.
The machine and Alex Vraciu were once again reunited on a Bond Fund raising tour based at the NATTC, but Alex was to cut the tour short after persuading Navy chiefs to return him to the action in the Pacific."
