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    Airframe Family: Grumman G-111/SA-16/HU-16/UF Albatross
    Latest Model:TU-16C Albatross
    Last Military Serial:131916 USN
    Construction Number:G-311
    Last Civil Registration:N55GH
    Compressed ID:Grumman TU-16C sn 131916 USN cn G-3...
    Latest Owner or Location:Northwest Regional Airport (52F), Roanoke, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UF-1T.

    4 September 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 131916.

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as TU-16C.

    10 June 1966

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 1U0006.

    10 March 1981

    To Allied Aircraft Sales Inc, Tucson, AZ.
    On behalf of Grumman Aerospace Corp, St Augustine.

    July 1986

    To Dennis G. Buehn, Reno, NV with new c/r N916DB.

    1988

    To Grumman Aerospace Corp, Saint Augustine, FL keeping c/r N916DB.

    13 September 1993

    To Flight Data Inc, Carson City, NV with new c/r N55GH.

    23 May 1996

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX55GH (HU-16, 131916) issued.

    To Northwest Regional Airport (52F), Roanoke, TX.
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    11 June 2013

    Civil registration, N55GH, cancelled.

    16 October 2013


    Photographer: Derek Oldham
    Notes: Derek Oldham provided this photo (from my e-mail request ) aircraft is now parked at Roanoke NW Regional

    31 August 2015

    Civil registration, N55GH, cancelled.

    25 March 2016


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Northwest Regional Airport, Roanoke, TX

    Circa 26 April 2024


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Roanoke, TX, USA
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
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