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    Airframe Family: Culver PQ-14 Cadet
    Latest Model:Q-14B
    Last Military Serial:44-68334 USAF
    Last Civil Registration:N999ML
    Compressed ID:Culver Q-14B sn 44-68334 USAF cr N9...
    Latest Owner or Location:EAA Aviation Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PQ-14B.

    13 March 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-68334.

    13 March 1945

    Assigned to Air Materiel Command, Jackson Field, MS for storage.

    January 1946

    Assigned to 4136th Air Base Unit, Air Technical Service Command, Tinker AFB, OK for storage.

    18 September 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 44-68334 as a Q-14B.

    September 1947

    Transferred to 4145th Air Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Holloman AFB, NM.

    March 1949

    Transferred to 2750th Air Base Group, Flight Test Division, Wright Air Development Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.
    Operated with markings: QK-334

    From 1949 to 1950

    Modified and Used in TIPTOW wing tip experiments in 1949 and 1950 at Wright Field with C-47 42-23918 as the tow plane. 231+ test couplings (56 at night) with 17 pilots involved. Longest coupled flight lasted 4.08 hours (Joe Baugher). Primary Pilot was Maj. C.E. Anderson, P-51 Ace with 15 kills; 8 other pilots made fewer flights.

    24 February 1950

    Involved in an incident.
    Mid air collision with the C-47 due to mechanical failure 10 miles SE of Wright-Patterson AFB.

    From 1956 to 1961

    To United States Air Force Museum, Patterson Field, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH with new c/r N10146.

    14 July 1961

    Certificate of airworthiness for N10146 (PQ-14B, 44-68334) issued.

    From 1967 to 1976

    To EAA Air Museum, Hales Corner, WI keeping c/r N10146.

    December 1986

    To Morton W. Lester, Martinsville, VA with new c/r N999ML.

    24 February 1989

    To EAA Aviation Foundation Inc, Oshkosh, WI keeping c/r N999ML.

    24 February 1989

    Based at EAA Airventure Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    30 July 2010


    Photographer: Todd Royer

    25 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    25 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    26 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Oshkosh - EAA Museum

    1 January 2014

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL999ML (PQ-14B, 44-68334) issued.

    30 April 2015

    Civil registration, N999ML, cancelled.

    To EAA Aviation Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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