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    Airframe Family: Schweizer X-26 Frigate
    Latest Model:X-26A Frigate
    Last Military Serial:158818 USN
    Compressed ID:Schweizer X-26A sn 158818 USN
    Latest Owner or Location:Wilson Lowry, Leonardtown, MD

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a X-26A.

    2 August 1971

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 158818.

    2 August 1971

    Transferred to Navy Tesy Pilot School, PTXNT River.

    1972

    Crashed.
    Went down in Chesapeake Bay.

    18 May 1972

    Written off.
    Written Off TT 41 hours.

    5 April 1973

    To Leon Cleaver Collection, Norwalk, OH.
    Survives here as wreckage only.
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    26 May 1978


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Henrietta Township Lorain County Ohio Storage

    Circa June 2000


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver

    Circa June 2000


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Left forward section. Fuselage broke in half upon crashing into Chesapeake Bay.

    Circa June 2000


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Right side and verticle stabilizer

    Circa June 2000


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Left side aft. Note US Navy Test Pilot School symbol

    10 August 2011


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Front Cockpit placard

    24 August 2011

    To Wilson Lowry, Leonardtown, MD.

    16 September 2011


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: loading X-26A - new owner Rusty Lowry from Maryland
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     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
    Individual Contributors
     Leon Cleaver
    Sid Nanson
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