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    Airframe Family: Curtiss JN-4 Jenny/Canuck
    Latest Model:JN-4D Jenny
    Construction Number:396
    Last Civil Registration:N5391
    Compressed ID:Curtiss JN-4D cn 396 cr N5391
    Latest Owner or Location:San Diego Aerospace Museum Inc, San Diego, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    1918

    Constructed as a JN-4D.

    16 December 1953


    Photographer: McLean County Historical Society
    Notes: Burrell Tibbs (Grand Prairie TX) and Flying Jenny Curtis JN-4D, Bloomington, IL, 1953

    17 September 1976

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5391 (JN4D, 396) issued.

    15 June 1993

    Placed on display with San Diego Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA.
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    15 June 1993

    To San Diego Aerospace Museum Inc, San Diego, CA with new c/r N5391.

    15 June 1999

    To San Diego Aerospace Museum Inc, San Diego, CA keeping c/r N5391.

    16 September 2013

    Civil registration, N5391, cancelled.

    July 2014


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At 2014 EAA Airventure at Oshkosh, Wisconsin

    Markings Applied: 38262
    S/n of USAAS JN-4HM, first US mailplane.

    1 January 2017

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX5391 (JN4D, 396) issued.

    21 April 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At San Diego Air and Space Museum, CA, USA. Repainted as USAAS s/n 38262 JN-4HM, first official US mailplane.
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