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    Airframe Family: Grumman G-111/SA-16/HU-16/UF Albatross
    Latest Model:HU-16C Albatross
    Last Military Serial:142429 USN
    Construction Number:G-214
    Last Civil Registration:N116AG
    Compressed ID:Grumman HU-16C sn 142429 USN cn G-2...
    Latest Owner or Location:R P Air Inc, Mendota Heights, MN

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HU-16C.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 142429.

    1 July 1996

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR116AG (HU-16C, 17164) issued.

    1 January 2001

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR116AG (HU-16C, 17164) issued.

    By May 2002

    To University of Alaska Aviation College, Merrill Field, Anchorage, AK.
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    29 March 2005

    To Aleutian Goose Adventures Llc, Wilmington, DE with new c/r N116AG.

    23 May 2008


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Merrill Field, Anchorage, Alaska

    26 December 2012

    To Great Gulf Corp, Dallas, TX keeping c/r N116AG.

    23 May 2013


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Great Falls International Airport, Montana.

    23 May 2013


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Great Falls International Airport, Montana.

    Based at Anoka County Airport, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN.
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    31 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Anoka County Airport, Blaine, Minnesota

    13 March 2018

    Civil registration, N116AG, cancelled.

    20 February 2020

    To Randolph M. Pentel, Mendota Heights, MN with new c/r N116AG.

    16 August 2023

    To Great Gulf Corp, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N116AG.

    8 January 2024

    To R P Air Inc, Mendota Heights, MN keeping c/r N116AG.
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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...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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