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    Airframe Family: Curtiss O-52 Owl
    Latest Model:O-52 Owl
    Last Military Serial:40-2769 USAAF
    Construction Number:14302
    Last Civil Registration:N61241
    Compressed ID:Curtiss O-52 sn 40-2769 USAAF cn 14...
    Latest Owner or Location:Yanks Air Museum, Chino Airport, Chino, California

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    Dates

    Event

    1941

    Constructed as an O-52.

    Circa 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Corps with s/n 40-2769.

    20 June 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 40-2769.

    21 May 1982

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL61241 (O-52, 14302) issued.

    May 1983


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA.

    10 May 1985


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA.

    November 1991


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA airshow

    6 August 1996

    To Charles F. Nichols Trustee, Baldwin Park, CA with new c/r N61241.

    In the inventory of Yanks Air Museum, Chino Airport, Chino, CA.
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    23 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Exhibited in Hall 1 of the Yanks Air Museum at Chino, California.
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    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Tom Tessier
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