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    Airframe Family: Grumman G-111/SA-16/HU-16/UF Albatross
    Latest Model:HU-16E Albatross
    Last Military Serial:1293 USCG
    Construction Number:G-370
    Compressed ID:Grumman HU-16E sn 1293 USCG cn G-37...
    Latest Owner or Location:March Field Air Museum, March ARB, Riverside, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UF-1G.

    May 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Coast Guard with s/n 1293.

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as HU-16E.

    9 September 1981

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 42048.

    New serial number assigned: HP0087 MASDC

    By March 1986

    To March Field Air Museum, March ARB, Riverside, CA.
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    1 March 1986


    Photographer: Nigel Roling
    Notes: USCG 1293 Albatros on base at March AFB, CA 01-03-86 (This date has been checked).

    December 1987


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At March Field Museum, CA. when museum was still on base.

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At March AFB.

    1998


    Photographer: Tom Tessier

    By January 2002


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at the March Field Museum.

    27 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Photographed at March Field Air Museum, Riverside, California
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