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    Airframe Family: Aermacchi MB-326
    Latest Model:MB-326M
    Construction Number:493
    Last Civil Registration:N153TP
    Compressed ID:Atlas MB-326M cn 493 cr N153TP
    Latest Owner or Location:Shafter Minter Field, Cawelo, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a MB-326M by Atlas at South Africa.

    19 August 1970

    To Flight Research Inc, Hattiesburg, MS with new c/r N153TP.

    Operated by Flight Research Inc, Hattiesburg, MS.
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    1 February 1994

    Civil registration, N153TP, cancelled.

    April 1999


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Mojave Airport, CA

    To Minter Field Air Museum, Minter Field, Shafter, CA.
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    12 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    12 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    6 March 2014


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At Shafter CA

    Based at Shafter Minter Field, Cawelo, CA.
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    11 November 2021


    Photographer: Curtis Noble
    Notes: Currently under static display restoration by new private owner and now named Minters Mistress

    Restoration started.
    Currently being restored for static display by new private owner as Minters Mistress.
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     Mike Henniger
    Curtis Noble
    Noah Rechtin
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