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    Airframe Family: Luscombe Model 8
    Latest Model:8A Silvaire
    Construction Number:3301
    Last Civil Registration:G-BSTX
    Compressed ID:Luscombe 8A cn 3301 cr G-BSTX
    Latest Owner or Location:Matthew Fox, Ripon

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    Dates

    Event

    1947

    Constructed as a 8A.
    LUSCOMBE 8A 3301

    By 1963

    To Stuart Campbell, San Francisco, CA with new c/r N71874 (8A, 3301).

    12 September 1990

    Civil registration, N71874, cancelled.

    From 13 September 1990 to 16 October 1991

    To Joan Olive Souch with new c/r G-BSTX.

    16 October 1991

    To unknown owner with c/r EI-CDZ.

    From 4 August 1995 to 8 August 2001

    To Archibald Alexander Alderdice with new c/r G-BSTX.

    4 July 1998


    Photographer: Vince Horan
    Notes: At Cranfield

    From 8 August 2001 to 2 September 2008

    To Gary Raymond Nicholson keeping c/r G-BSTX.

    2 September 2008

    To Colin Chambers, Kilkeel, Newry keeping c/r G-BSTX.

    31 October 2019

    To Matthew Fox, Ripon keeping c/r G-BSTX.
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