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    Airframe Family: Cessna 170 / 305 / L-19 / O-1 / OE / 325 / SIAI-Marchetti SM.1019
    Latest Model:TO-1A Bird Dog
    Last Military Serial:51-11963 US
    Construction Number:22277
    Last Civil Registration:N4508B
    Compressed ID:Cessna TO-1A sn 51-11963 US cn 2227...
    Latest Owner or Location:Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, Virginia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an O-1A.

    18 January 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 51-11963.

    February 1952

    Transferred to Wichita, February 1952.

    31 January 1958

    Redesignated as TO-1A.

    31 January 1958

    Transferred to 502nd Aviation Company.

    2 March 1962

    Transferred to Forward Aerial Weapon Depot (FAWD), Forth Worth, TX.

    From 18 May 1963 to 10 June 1966

    Transferred to AQC (Aviation Qualification Course), Aviation Maintenance Department, Fort Hood, TX.

    19 November 1971

    Transferred to U. S. Army Aviation School, Fort Stewart, GA.

    28 December 1971

    To Fort Devins Flying Club, Ayers, MA with new c/r N4508B.

    6 January 1972

    To US Army, Ayer, MA keeping c/r N4508B.

    25 August 1977

    Civil registration, N4508B, cancelled.

    2 May 1978

    To Smithsonian National Air Museum.

    Placed on display with Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, VA.
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    Markings Applied: 963, Mobile Miss
    In the markings of an aircraft of the 74th Aviation Company (Aerial Surveillance) near Saigon in 1972.

    16 September 2011


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    16 September 2011


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum
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