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    Airframe Family: Cessna 310 / 320 / L-27/U-3 Blue Canoe
    Latest Model:U-3B Administrator
    Last Military Serial:60-6063 US
    Construction Number:310M0018
    Last Civil Registration:N5076A
    Compressed ID:Cessna U-3B sn 60-6063 US cn 310M00...
    Latest Owner or Location:Manassas Regional Airport, Manassas, Virginia

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    Dates

    Event

    1961

    Constructed as a L-27B.

    Circa 1961

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 60-6063.

    1962

    Redesignated as U-3B.

    12 July 1982

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5076A (310E, 310M0018) issued.

    16 December 2010

    To Rock G. Skowbo, Winchester, VA with new c/r N5076A.

    Markings Applied: US Air Force

    29 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Sun n Fun at Lakeland, Florida

    27 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Arriving at 2012 Sun N Fun, Lakeland, Florida

    Based at Manassas Regional Airport, Manassas, VA.
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    29 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: at 2017 EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh

    4 April 2019


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Sun-N-Fun, Lakeland, FL.

    4 April 2019


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Sun-N-Fun, Lakeland, FL.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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