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    Airframe Family: Fairchild 51 / 61 / 71 / FC-1 / FC-2
    Latest Model:71
    Construction Number:37
    Last Civil Registration:N9708 {2}
    Compressed ID:Fairchild 71 cn 37 cr N9708
    Latest Owner or Location:Horst Aviation Llc, New Holland, PA

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    Dates

    Event

    1929

    Constructed as a 71.

    To Embry Riddle Co with new c/r NC9708.

    18 June 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9708 {2} (71, 37) issued.

    6 February 1964

    To Eugene O. Frank, Caldwell, ID with new c/r N58993.

    8 March 2006

    To Horst Aviation Llc, New Holland, PA with new c/r N9708 {2}.

    11 April 2013

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9708 {2} (71, 37) issued.

    4 September 2015


    Photographer: David Miller
    Notes: At 2015 Blakesburg Fly-In

    9 June 2016


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: At the MAAC Grassroots Fly-In 2016, at Brodhead, WI

    10 November 2016

    To Horst Aviation Llc, New Holland, PA keeping c/r N9708 {2}.

    28 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2017 EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh

    14 January 2020

    To Horst Aviation Llc, New Holland, PA keeping c/r N9708 {2}.
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