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    Airframe Family: Curtiss JN-4 Jenny/Canuck
    Latest Model:JN-4D Jenny
    Last Military Serial:A2525 USAAS
    Construction Number:278
    Last Civil Registration:N5162
    Compressed ID:Curtiss JN-4D sn A2525 USAAS cn 278...
    Latest Owner or Location:United States Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Enterprise, Alabama

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a JN-4D.

    1918

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Services with s/n A2525.

    By November 1967

    To unknown owner with c/r N5162.

    30 November 1967

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX5162 (JN4D, 278) issued.

    By 1974

    To Bill Harrahs Automobile Collection, Reno, NV keeping c/r N5162.

    To Museum of Flight, Santa Monica, CA. Airport keeping c/r N5162.

    1990

    Auctioned off due to museum closing.

    By April 1993

    To United States Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Enterprise, AL.
    Markings added: 525
    Listed in inventory as s/n 18-2780.
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    21 June 1996

    To unknown owner with c/r N5162.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Washington, DC.

    22 December 2004


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    27 June 2013

    Civil registration, N5162, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Washington, DC.
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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
     Air History.org
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Warbird Information Exchange by Scott Rose
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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