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    Airframe Family: Beech 45/T-34 Mentor
    Latest Model:T-34A Mentor
    Last Military Serial:53-3311 USAF
    Construction Number:G-072
    Last Civil Registration:N273CB
    Compressed ID:Beech T-34A sn 53-3311 USAF cn G-07...
    Latest Owner or Location:Timothy L. Gause, Rock Hill, SC

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a T-34A.

    Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-3311.

    30 October 1957

    Certificate of airworthiness for N311H (A45, G-72) issued.

    31 May 1995

    To Don M. Curtes, Menomonee Falls, WI with new c/r N311H.

    Based at West Bend Municipal Airport, West Bend, WI.
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    Markings Applied: AF/5472

    13 July 2010

    To Don M. Curtes, Menomonee Falls, WI keeping c/r N311H.

    7 February 2011

    To First Light Aviation Llc, Falls Church, VA with new c/r N273CB.

    25 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Oshkosh

    26 July 2012


    Photographer: Todd Royer
    Notes: EAA Airventure 2012

    July 2016


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: At Oshkosh, Wisconsin

    17 December 2019

    To First Light Aviation Llc, Falls Church, VA keeping c/r N273CB.

    27 August 2022

    To Timothy L. Gause, Rock Hill, SC keeping c/r N273CB.


    Photographer: Tim Gause


    Photographer: Tim Gause
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
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