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    Airframe Family: Caudron G-4
    Latest Model:G-4IB
    Last Military Serial:C4263 ALA
    Construction Number:2170
    Compressed ID:Caudron G-4IB sn C4263 ALA cn 2170
    Latest Owner or Location:Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, Virginia

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    Dates

    Event

    12 December 1916

    Constructed as a G-4IB.
    Uncertain if the construction number above is correct.
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    27 December 1916

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armee de l Air with s/n C4263.
    Acceptance flight from Issy-les-Moulineaux on this date.

    By January 1917

    Assigned to Reserve Generale for storage.
    Placed straight into storage.

    1917

    To US Government.
    Purchased for technical evaluation.

    By 26 July 1917

    At Langley Field, Hampton, Virginia however considered obsolete.

    September 1918

    To Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC.
    Donated to the museum with several other obsolete French aircraft.

    To Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, VA.
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    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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