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    Airframe Family: Noorduyn Norseman
    Latest Model:UC-64A-ND Norseman
    Last Military Serial:43-5237 USAAF
    Construction Number:228
    Last Civil Registration:N55555
    Compressed ID:Noorduyn UC-64A-ND sn 43-5237 USAAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Interior and Arctic Ak Aero Found, Fairbanks, AK

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UC-64A-ND by Noorduyn at Montreal, QC, Canada.

    From 13 October 1943 to 30 November 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-5237.

    19 October 1943

    Transferred to Brookley AAF, Mobile, AL.

    From 1946 to 1948

    To Island Airways, Inc with new c/r N55555.

    From 1956 to 1961

    To Alaska Airlines keeping c/r N55555.

    1956


    Photographer: Pioneer Air Museum Collection
    Notes: The Norseman N55555 hauling fuel barrels from Ketchikan to a mine near a glacier. 1956

    By 1963

    To Robert D. Reddick, Santa Paula, CA keeping c/r N55555.

    1968


    Photographer: Ed Coates
    Notes: At Long Beach, CA.

    From By 1971 to After 1978

    To Northwest Norsemen Inc, Tacoma, WA keeping c/r N55555.

    18 September 1987

    Certificate of airworthiness for N55555 (UC-64A, 228) issued.

    23 June 1992


    Photographer: Roland Busser
    Notes: At Fairbanks, Alaska

    1 July 1992

    To Interior and Arctic Ak Aero Found, Fairbanks, AL keeping c/r N55555.

    By May 1996

    To Pioneer Air Museum, Fairbanks, AK.
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    15 June 2010

    To Interior and Arctic Ak Aero Found, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N55555.

    22 April 2013

    Civil registration, N55555, cancelled.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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