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    Airframe Family: Fairchild 24 Argus / C-61 Forwarder / C-68 / GK / J2K
    Latest Model:UC-61K-FA Forwarder
    Last Military Serial:43-14987 USAAF
    Construction Number:0951
    Last Civil Registration:F-BAMB
    Compressed ID:Fairchild UC-61K-FA sn 43-14987 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Brussels Air Museum, Jubelpark, Etterbeek, Brussel Hoofdstedelijk Gewest

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-24R-46A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n HB713 as a Argus III.

    14 July 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-14987 as a UC-61K-FA.
    Returned to the USAAF.

    Civil registration ZS-BYN reserved but not taken up.

    Civil registration F-OADB reserved but not taken up.

    Civil registration F-BAMB reserved but not taken up.

    Civil registration OO-LUT reserved but not taken up.

    13 September 1956

    To Aero Club Roger Sommer, Douzy, Champagne with new c/r F-BAMB (24r 46a, 951).
    Based at Sedan-douzy.

    18 July 1962

    Civil registration, F-BAMB, cancelled.

    By October 2003

    To Brussels Air Museum, Jubelpark, Etterbeek, Brussel Hoofdstedelijk Gewest.
    View the Location Dossier

    2005


    Photographer: Andy West

    14 May 2019


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History, Brussels, Belgium.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    DGCA Civil Aircraft Register (France)
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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