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    Airframe Family: Aeronca 50/65 / L-3 Champion / LNR / O-58 / TG-5 / TG-33
    Latest Model:L-3B Grasshopper
    Last Military Serial:42-36317 USAAF
    Construction Number:3432
    Last Civil Registration:N48118
    Compressed ID:Aeronca L-3B sn 42-36317 USAAF cn 3...
    Latest Owner or Location:Warbird Heritage Foundation, Waukegan Regional Airport, Waukegan, Illinois

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    Dates

    Event

    1942

    Constructed as an O-58B.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-36317 as a L-3B.

    17 June 1964

    Certificate of airworthiness for N48118 (0-58B, 3432) issued.

    By 1971

    To Rueben Zahler, Verona, IL with new c/r N48118.

    29 October 1992

    To Jeffry J. Hill Sr, Woodstock, IL keeping c/r N48118.

    22 June 1999

    To Jeffry J. Hill Sr, Woodstock, IL keeping c/r N48118.
    Markings added: 236317

    24 June 2012


    Photographer: Mark Pasqualino
    Notes: At Big Foot Airfield

    September 2015


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: At Brodhead, Wisconsin

    1 January 2017

    To Jeffry J. Hill Sr, Woodstock, IL keeping c/r N48118.

    21 February 2017

    To Warbird Heritage Foundation, Waukegan, IL keeping c/r N48118.

    Based at Warbird Heritage Foundation, Waukegan Regional Airport, Waukegan, IL.
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