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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:42-36152 USAAF
    Construction Number:058B-1782
    Last Civil Registration:N52169
    Compressed ID:Aeronca L-3B sn 42-36152 USAAF cn 0...
    Latest Owner or Location:Alamo Liaison Squadron, Cannon Field, San Antonio, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an O-58B.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-36152.

    1942

    Redesignated as L-3B.

    29 April 1987

    To unknown owner with c/r N52169.

    29 April 1987

    Certificate of airworthiness for N52169 (0-58B, 058B-1782) issued.

    23 September 1988

    To Henry B. Whitmore, San Antonio, TX keeping c/r N52169.

    8 May 2004


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: Pioneer Flight Museum, Old Kingsbury Aerodrome [85TE], Kingsbury, TX; May 8, 2004.

    15 August 2006

    To Henry B. Whitmore, San Antonio, TX keeping c/r N52169.

    19 November 2008

    To Ronnie L. Dennis, Natalia, TX keeping c/r N52169.

    22 February 2012

    To Lee H. Montgomery, Corsicana, TX keeping c/r N52169.

    Based at Alamo Liaison Squadron, Cannon Field, San Antonio, TX.
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    20 August 2021

    Civil registration, N52169, cancelled.
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