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    Airframe Family: Stinson SR/V-77/AT-19/C-81/L-9 Reliant
    Latest Model:V-77 Reliant
    Construction Number:77-0461
    Last Civil Registration:N40053
    Compressed ID:Vultee V-77 cn 77-0461 cr N40053
    Latest Owner or Location:Paul T. Chase Sr, Houston, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1944

    Constructed as a V-77 by Vultee.
    Stinson V77 77-461

    By July 1961


    Photographer: John Kirkland - GPutz Collection
    Notes: Scanned Kodachrome slide shot by geologist John Kirkland at old La Ronge Saskatchewan airport summer of 1961. Photo of N40053 after being badly damaged. Circumstance Unknown. I would be pleased to know how the aircraft came to be damaged and information on its subsequent repair.

    By July 1961


    Photographer: John Kirkland - GPutz Collection
    Notes: Scanned Kodachrome slide shot by geologist John Kirkland at old La Ronge Saskatchewan airport summer of 1961. Photo of N40053 after being badly damaged. Circumstance Unknown. I would be pleased to know how the aircraft came to be damaged and information on its subsequent repair.

    16 October 1970

    Certificate of airworthiness for N40053 (V77, 77-461) issued.

    10 May 1985

    To Paul T. Chase Sr, Houston, TX with new c/r N40053.

    15 November 2012

    Civil registration, N40053, cancelled.

    1 January 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for N40053 (V77, 77-461) issued.


    Photographer: John Kirkland - GPutz Collection
    Notes: Scanned Kodachrome slide shot by geologist John Kirkland at old La Ronge Saskatchewan airport summer of 1961. The current La Ronge airport replaced this location in 1976. N40053 was badly damaged soon after this photo was shot.
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