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    Airframe Family: Consolidated B-24/C-87/C-109 Liberator / PB4Y/P-4 Privateer
    Latest Model:PB4Y-2 Privateer
    Last Military Serial:59819 USN
    Last Civil Registration:N3739G
    Compressed ID:Consolidated PB4Y-2 sn 59819 USN cr...
    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 PB4Y-2.

    Operated as fire service #C30.

    22 April 1968

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR3739G (P4Y-2, 59819) issued.

    To Flight Enterprises, Prescott with new c/r N3739G.

    17 August 1973


    Photographer: Ron Olsen

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 59819.

    Circa 1980


    Photographer: Mike Woodley
    Notes: Parked at Fresno Airport - Fresno Air Attack Base

    16 May 1981


    Photographer: Unknown

    3 April 1983


    Photographer: Bob Trennert Collection

    11 October 1984


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1984 photo at Chandler Memorial, Arizona

    24 January 1991

    To Texas Aviation Hall of Fame, Galveston, TX with new c/r N3739G.

    Based at Lone Star Flight Museum, Scholes Field, Galveston, TX.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: 30

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
    View the Location Dossier

    6 October 2016

    To unknown owner with c/r N3739G.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Tucson, AZ.

    24 October 2016


    Photographer: Chris Kennedy
    Notes: At Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ.

    19 October 2017


    Photographer: Johnny Comstedt
    Notes: In Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, AZ, USA 19. October 2017

    30 May 2018

    To unknown owner with c/r N3739G.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Tucson, AZ.


    Photographer: Unknown
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    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     American Aviation Historical Society
    American Aviation Historical Society
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Patrick Carry
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