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    Airframe Family: Budd RB-1 Conestoga / C-93
    Latest Model:C-93
    Last Military Serial:39307 USN
    Construction Number:16
    Last Civil Registration:XB-DUZ
    Compressed ID:Budd C-93 sn 39307 USN cn 16 cr XB-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a RB-1.

    19 October 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 39307 as a C-93.

    July 1945

    To National Skyway Freight Corp/Flying Tiger Line Inc, Burbank, CA with new c/r NC33308.

    To Aerovias Q with new c/r CU-C-495.
    C/R reserved but not taken up.

    Circa 1948

    To unknown owner with c/r XB-DUZ.

    Circa 1965

    Seized in the mid-1960s for smuggling at Douglas-Bisbee, AZ.

    From By 1971 to By 1972

    Withdrawn from use and placed in open storage at Douglas, AZ.

    July 1978

    Sold at auction, and the buyer donated the airframe to the Pima Air and Space Museum.

    March 1984

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    July 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    7 March 2020


    Photographer: Richard Talley
    Notes: Missing Engine Nacelles, Wings, and Tail of this only remaining example still exist and are in storage in the restoration area of Pima Air Museum.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Johnny Comstedt
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