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    Airframe Family: Aeronca 7 Champion/Citabria / L-16 Grasshopper
    Latest Model:L-16B Grasshopper
    Last Military Serial:48-0472 US
    Construction Number:7CCM-50
    Last Civil Registration:N3956A
    Compressed ID:Aeronca L-16B sn 48-0472 US cn 7CCM...
    Latest Owner or Location:Lewis O. Beaudrot, Orange Park, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-16B.

    1948

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 48-0472.

    1 October 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N3956A (AERONCA L-16B, 7CCM-50) issued.

    15 June 1992

    To Moontown Airport Inc, Brownsboro, AL with new c/r N3956A.

    By 1999

    Markings Applied: 472, U.S. ARMY 8472

    24 July 1999


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Keokuk, IA

    23 July 2005


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Keokuk, IA

    18 March 2008

    To Moontown Airport Inc, Brownsboro, AL keeping c/r N3956A.

    17 December 2010

    To George G. Myers, Huntsville, AL keeping c/r N3956A.

    10 January 2014

    To Anthony A. Militano, Palm Coast, FL keeping c/r N3956A.

    April 2016


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: At Sun-N-Fun, Lakeland, Florida

    2 October 2018

    To Lewis O. Beaudrot, Orange Park, FL keeping c/r N3956A.

    19 July 2021

    To Lewis O. Beaudrot, Orange Park, FL keeping c/r N3956A.
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