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    Airframe Family: North American T-28 Trojan / Fennec / Nomad
    Latest Model:T-28B Trojan
    Last Military Serial:138294 USN
    Construction Number:200-365
    Last Civil Registration:N5440F
    Compressed ID:NA T-28B sn 138294 USN cn 200-365 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Tomorrows Aeronautical Museum, Compton/Woodley Airport, Los Angeles, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-28B.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 138294.

    August 1984

    To Courtesy Aircraft Inc, Rockford, IL with new c/r N5440F.

    15 August 1984

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX5440F (T-28B, 138294) issued.

    From By 1986 to By 1988

    To Southern Cal. Aviation Inc, Newport Beach, CA keeping c/r N5440F.

    1986


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Taken on the ramp at the Mojave, California airport.

    7 December 1990

    To Dasan Farms Inc/David Moore, Grimes, CA keeping c/r N5440F.

    Markings Applied: 153, 2P, 138294

    11 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photo taken at the California Capital Air Show.

    11 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    13 July 2013


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Nevada County Air Fest.

    13 July 2013


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Nevada County Air Fest.

    26 April 2014


    Photographer: Dan Kelly
    Notes: Flying over Folsom, CA

    1 January 2015

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX5440F (T-28B, 138294) issued.

    7 August 2017

    To Tomorrows Aeronautical Museum, Compton, CA keeping c/r N5440F.

    Placed on display with Tomorrows Aeronautical Museum, Compton/Woodley Airport, Los Angeles, CA.
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    By 13 March 2019

    To unknown owner with c/r N5440F.

    13 March 2019

    Crashed.
    There was one fatality and was one serious injury. The accident occurred at the Compton/woodley Airport (CPM) Compton, CA, United States while landing. The damage was minor. On March 13, 2019, about 1855 Pacific daylight time, a Cessna 152 airplane, N48962 and a North American T-28 Trojan, N5440F, collided while landing on runway 25L at the Compton/Woodley Airport, Compton, California...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    8 December 2020

    Civil registration, N5440F, cancelled.
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    Print Sources
     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Transportation Safety Board
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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