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    Airframe Family: Cessna T-50/AT-17/C-78 Bobcat / Crane
    Latest Model:UC-78C Bobcat
    Last Military Serial:42-72125 USAAF
    Construction Number:4121
    Last Civil Registration:N88878
    Compressed ID:Cessna UC-78C sn 42-72125 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:James J. Anderson Trustee, Stillwater, MN

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UC-78C.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-72125.

    29 December 1958

    Certificate of airworthiness for N88878 (T-50, 4121) issued.

    By 1971

    To Ray Swanson, Paw Paw, MI with new c/r N88878.

    1 December 1989

    To Elmo AFB Flying Club Inc, Hudson, WI keeping c/r N88878.

    17 February 1999

    To Elmo AFB Flying Club Inc, Marine On Saint CRX, MN keeping c/r N88878.

    30 June 2005

    To Elmo AFB Flying Club Inc, Hudson, WI keeping c/r N88878.

    2 November 2010

    To Elmo AFB Flying Club Inc, Marine Saint Croix, MN keeping c/r N88878.

    Based at Saint Paul Downtown Airport/Holman Field, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN.
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    24 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Oshkosh

    20 July 2014


    Photographer: Max Sabin

    July 2015


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At EAA Airventure Oshkosh

    23 July 2018


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Class of 43-titles on Bobcat N88878 at AirVenture 2018, Oshkosh, WI

    7 May 2019

    Civil registration, N88878, cancelled.

    3 June 2022

    To Elmo AFB Flying Club Inc, Marine Saint CRX, MN with new c/r N88878 (T-50, 4121).

    18 February 2024

    To unknown owner with c/r N88878.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Stillwater, MN.

    26 March 2024

    To unknown owner with c/r N88878.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Stillwater, MN.

    5 June 2024

    To James J. Anderson Trustee, Stillwater, MN keeping c/r N88878.
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    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Terry Fletcher
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