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    Airframe Family: Naval Aircraft Factory N3N
    Latest Model:N3N-3
    Last Military Serial:02582 USN
    Construction Number:2582
    Last Civil Registration:N45042
    Compressed ID:Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 sn 025...
    Latest Owner or Location:Western Antique Aeroplane and Auto Museum, Hood River Jernstedt Airfield, Hood River, Oregon

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a N3N-3.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 02582.

    19 May 1977

    Certificate of airworthiness for N45042 (N3N-3, 2582) issued.

    June 1978


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: At Mercred, CA.

    20 October 1979


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: Photographed at Travis AFB.

    5 June 1982


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Merced, CA.

    20 August 1985

    To Terry R. Brandt, Hood River, OR with new c/r N45042.

    22 October 1992

    To Terry R. Brandt, Hood River, OR keeping c/r N45042.

    8 February 2007

    To Western Antique Aeroplane Automobile Museum, Hood River, OR keeping c/r N45042.

    Operated by Western Antique Aeroplane and Auto Museum, Hood River Jernstedt Airfield, Hood River, OR.
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    22 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 Photo at Western Antique Aeroplanes and Automobile Museum, in Hood River, Oregon of a 1940 Built Naval Air Factory N3N-3

    1 January 2019

    Certificate of airworthiness for N45042 (N3N-3, 2582) issued.

    15 October 2022


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At the WAAAM museum in Hood River, OR.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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