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    Airframe Family: Travel Air 2000 / 3000 / 4000 / 6000 Travel Air / CW-12 / CW-14
    Latest Model:2000
    Construction Number:0490
    Last Civil Registration:N5290
    Compressed ID:Travel Air 2000 cn 0490 cr N5290
    Latest Owner or Location:Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, Creve Coeur Airport, Saint Louis, Missouri

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    Dates

    Event

    1928

    Constructed as a 2000.
    Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 2000 490

    4 October 1957

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5290 (TRAVEL AIR 2000, 490) issued.

    To Wings and Wheels Museum, Moncks Corner, SC.
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    26 November 1982

    To John J. Cournoyer, Ellsinore, MO with new c/r N5290.

    Based at Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, Creve Coeur Airport, Saint Louis, MO.
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    1 January 2004

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5290 (TRAVEL AIR 2000, 490) issued.

    September 2019


    Photographer: Owen ORourke
    Notes: Travel Air 2000 NC5290 at Creve Coeur Airport, MO (1H0)
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