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    Airframe Family: Grumman G-111/SA-16/HU-16/UF Albatross
    Latest Model:HU-16B Albatross
    Last Military Serial:567 FACh
    Construction Number:G-057
    Last Civil Registration:N8497J
    Compressed ID:Grumman HU-16B sn 567 FACh cn G-057...
    Latest Owner or Location:Okmulgee Regional Airport, Preston, Oklahoma

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HU-16B.

    31 March 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 49-0099.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea de Chile with s/n 267.

    New serial number assigned: 567 FACh

    October 1980

    To Resorts International Inc/Chalks International Airline, Miami FL with new c/r N8497J.

    From 1984 to 1988

    To Grumman Aerospace Corp, Saint Augustine FL keeping c/r N8497J.

    22 November 1988

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR8497J (HU-16B, 49-099) issued.

    April 1989

    To Island Flying Boats Inc, Miami FL keeping c/r N8497J.

    28 May 1989


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Opa Locka, Florida

    July 1989

    To Air Crane Inc, Opa Locka FL keeping c/r N8497J.

    From 24 January 1992 to 2009

    To Thomas A. Quinn DBA, Tulsa, OK keeping c/r N8497J.

    1 April 2009

    To E-Commerce Education Foundation, Tulsa, OK keeping c/r N8497J.

    Based at Richard Lloyd Jones Jr. Municipal Airport, Tulsa, OK.
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    To Okmulgee Regional Airport, Preston, OK.
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    Markings Applied: 567
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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