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    Airframe Family: Cessna T-50/AT-17/C-78 Bobcat / Crane
    Latest Model:UC-78 Bobcat
    Last Military Serial:43-7653 USAAF
    Construction Number:5173
    Last Civil Registration:N60145
    Compressed ID:Cessna UC-78 sn 43-7653 USAAF cn 51...
    Latest Owner or Location:Round Engine Aero, Charlotte - Nashville - Bellevue, Michigan

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UC-78.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-7653.

    From Circa 1945 to Circa 1949

    Transferred to civillian ownership.

    14 January 1977

    To Caribbean Traders Inc, Miami, FL with new c/r N60145.

    To Walter Soplata Aviation Collection, Newbury, Cleveland, OH.
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    September 2007

    Last spotted in the Soplata collection.

    30 August 2012

    Civil registration, N60145, cancelled.


    Photographer: Phil Branagan

    August 2024

    To Round Engine Aero, Charlotte-Nashville-Bellevue, MI.
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