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    Airframe Family: Grumman G-111/SA-16/HU-16/UF Albatross
    Latest Model:HU-16C Albatross
    Last Military Serial:131904 USN
    Construction Number:G-333
    Last Civil Registration:N216HU
    Compressed ID:Grumman HU-16C sn 131904 USN cn G-3...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hans O. Lauridsen, Cave Creek, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UF-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 131904.

    Redesignated as HU-16C.

    From By 7 July 1970 to By 1975

    Assigned to Davis Monthan AFB, AZ for storage.
    Withdrawn from use and placed in open storage at Davis Monthan.

    7 July 1970

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 1U0052.

    16 April 1980

    Placed up for sale.

    9 March 1981

    To Grumman Aerospace Corp, Saint Augustine, FL.

    Operated by Allied Aircraft Sales Inc, Tucson, AZ.
    Operated or purchased by by Allied on behalf of Grumman.

    Possibly kept in storage at Davis-Monthan or operated from there.

    December 1988

    To Air Crane Inc, Opa Locka, FL with new c/r N7026X.

    From April 1989 to By 1989

    To Island Flying Boats Inc, Miami, FL.

    March 1993

    To South Florida Aviation Investments, Opa Locka, FL.

    Kept in open storage unconvered in the yard of a contactor in Opa Locka.

    From 16 March 1994 to By 1994

    To Big Toe Inc, Incline Village, NV.

    16 March 1994

    To Big Toe Inc, Incline Village, NV with new c/r N904G.

    31 December 2001

    Assigned civil registration: N904G

    30 April 2002


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: N7026X with fading colors at Specialized Aircraft Maintenance, Tucson, AZ

    28 January 2003

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR904G (HU-16, 131904) issued.

    4 April 2006

    To Big Toe Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N904G.

    20 April 2006

    Civil registration N9131 reserved.

    26 April 2007

    To unknown owner with c/r N9131.

    To Aerocrafters, Charles M. Schultz Sonoma County Airport, Santa Rosa, CA.
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    October 2008

    Registraion pending to a new owner in Carefree, AZ.

    5 November 2008

    To Hans O. Lauridsen, Carefree, AZ with new c/r N216HU.

    To Coolidge Municipal Airport, Coolidge, AZ.
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    Operated by Lauridsen Aviation Museum, Glendale Municipal Airport, Phoenix, AZ.
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    To Lauridsen Aviation Museum, Buckeye Municipal Airport, Buckeye, AZ.
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    7 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    7 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    26 January 2012

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX216HU (HU-16, 131904) issued.

    8 February 2014


    Photographer: Chris Kennedy
    Notes: Spectacular new paint job.

    25 November 2015

    To Hans O. Lauridsen, Phoenix, AZ keeping c/r N216HU.

    19 March 2017


    Photographer: Steffen Rhode
    Notes: Buckeye, Arizona

    24 April 2019

    To Hans O. Lauridsen, Cave Creek, AZ keeping c/r N216HU.

    30 July 2022

    Civil registration, N216HU, cancelled.
    Credits
     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
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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