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    Airframe Family: Naval Aircraft Factory N3N
    Latest Model:N3N-3
    Last Military Serial:3046 USN
    Last Civil Registration:N3NP {2}
    Compressed ID:Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 sn 304...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a N3N-3.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 3046.

    7 September 1941

    Transferred to NAIT, NAS Corpus Christi, TX.

    25 March 1943

    Transferred to A and R, NAS Corpus Christi, TX.

    19 April 1943

    Transferred to NAIT Instructor School, NAS Corpus Christi, TX.

    2 August 1943

    Transferred to A and R, NAS Corpus Christi, TX.

    27 September 1943

    Transferred to NAIT Instructor School, NAS Corpus Christi, TX.

    1946

    Transferred to VND7D8.

    From 1947 to 1948

    Transferred to NAS Annapolis, MD.

    22 July 1959

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    Circa 1959

    To unknown owner with c/r N6399T.

    Circa 10 January 1968

    To Adolph L Prose and Dorothy A Prose, Downers Grove, IL with new c/r N3NP {2} (N3N-3, 3046).

    1978

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    25 May 1979

    Civil registration, N3NP {2}, cancelled.

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    19 April 2010


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    27 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola NAS, Pensacola, Florida, United States
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Naval Aviation Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
    Matt Maranto
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