Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 trainers, including a land-based version of the “Yellow Peril” at the Evergreen Aviation Museum and a float-plane version at the NASM Udvar-Hazy facility. The Yanks Air Museum in Chino actually had examples of both versions. During an airshow at Paine Field I photographed an airworthy N3N-3, and then caught up with that same plane at an air show at the Olympic Air Museum. During the 2018 Arlington Fly-In there were two N3N-3 examples that I had not seen before.
1943 Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 #1778
Arlington Airport 2018
1940 Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 #2582
WAAAM, Hood River 2021
WAAAM, Hood River 2023
1941 Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 #2616
Arlington Airport 2018
Olympic Flight Museum 2019
1941 Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 #2659
Driggs, ID 2021
1941 Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 #2691
Paine Field 2016
HFF, Paine Field 2017
Olympic Flight Museum 2018
1941 Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 #2804
Rowland Freedom Center 2024
1941 Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 #2827
Yanks Air Museum, Chino 2018
1941 Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 #2831
Evergreen Aviation Museum 2015
Evergreen Museum 2018
1941 Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 #3022
NASM Udvar-Hazy facility 2015
1943 Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 #4480
Yanks Air Museum, Chino 2018
N3N-3 #2693
Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola 2024
N3N-3 #3046
The floatplane was physically marked #2693 and land plane #3046, but Museum’s reference book has that reversed.