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    Airframe Family: Cessna 310 / 320 / L-27/U-3 Blue Canoe
    Latest Model:U-3A Blue Canoe
    Last Military Serial:57-5894 USAF
    Construction Number:38049
    Last Civil Registration:N4406
    Compressed ID:Cessna U-3A sn 57-5894 USAF cn 3804...
    Latest Owner or Location:Wings Over the Rockies Museum, Lowry Field (formerly Lowry AFB), Denver, Colorado

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-27A-CE by Cessna at Wichita, KS, USA.

    Circa 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 57-5894.

    August 1958

    Redesignated as U-3A.

    6 September 1968

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC).

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 57-5894.

    12 April 1971

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC).

    3 September 1971

    To Victor Valley College, Victorville, CA with new c/r N4406.

    11 January 1999

    Civil registration, N4406, cancelled.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    By October 2005

    Loaned to Wings Over The Rockies Air Space Museum, Denver, CO.

    To Wings Over the Rockies Museum, Lowry Field (formerly Lowry AFB), Denver, CO.
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    Markings Applied: 75854, U.S. AIR FORCE

    24 February 2011


    Photographer: John Meneely
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