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    Airframe Family: Grumman G-111/SA-16/HU-16/UF Albatross
    Latest Model:UF-1 Albatross
    Last Military Serial:137904 USN
    Construction Number:G-377
    Last Civil Registration:N8523H
    Compressed ID:Grumman UF-1 sn 137904 USN cn G-377...
    Latest Owner or Location:H. R. Ovalle, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UF-1.

    6 August 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 137904.

    From 1964 to 1966

    Transferred to US Naval Attache, Oslo, Norway.

    From 1977 to 1982

    Stored at NAS Pensacola FL.

    9 April 1981

    To Grumman Aerospace Corp, Saint Augustine FL with new c/r N8523H.

    1988


    Photographer: Unknown

    1 March 1989

    To Island Flying Boats Inc, Miami FL keeping c/r N8523H.

    January 1990

    To Air Crane Inc, Opa Locka FL keeping c/r N8523H.

    6 December 1991


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: At Opa Locka, Florida

    24 July 1992

    To H. R. Ovalle, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

    6 October 1992

    Civil registration, N8523H, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma City, OK.

    2008

    On a list of abandoned aircraft in Mexico - parked at Aeropuerto de Tepicnay.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Terry Fletcher
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