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    Airframe Family: Curtiss JN-4 Jenny/Canuck
    Latest Model:JN-4D Jenny
    Last Military Serial:2975 USAAS
    Construction Number:450
    Last Civil Registration:N2975 {2}
    Latest Owner or Location:Fagen Fighters WW2 Museum / Ron Fagen, Granite Falls, Minnesota

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a JN-4D.

    January 1918

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Services with s/n 2975.

    January 1918

    Transferred to Taylor Field, Montgomery, AL.

    18 May 1970

    To Kenneth W. Hyde, Warrenton, VA.

    29 December 1975

    To Kenneth W. Hyde, Warrenton, VA with c/r N2975 {2}.

    24 April 1986

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX2975 {2} (JN4D, 450) issued.

    21 June 1986

    First post-restoration Flight.

    9 May 1992

    To Kenneth W. Hyde, Warrenton, VI.
    Last CR action date noted here.

    By 2011

    Loaned to Virginia Aviation Museum, Richmond International Airport (Byrd Field), Richmond, VA.
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    20 September 2011


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    23 October 2014

    To unknown owner with c/r N2975 {2}.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Granite Falls, MN.

    10 December 2014

    To Curtiss JN4-D Llc, Granite Falls, MN.

    August 2015

    Restoration completed.
    Restored by Ken Hydes workshop in Warrenton, Virginia.

    August 2015

    Based at Fagen Fighters WW2 Museum/Ron Fagen, Granite Falls, MN.
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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     Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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