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    Airframe Family: Stinson L-5/OY/U-19 Sentinel / O-62
    Latest Model:L-5 Sentinel
    Last Military Serial:42-14914 USAAF
    Construction Number:1120
    Last Civil Registration:N4914
    Compressed ID:Stinson L-5 sn 42-14914 USAAF cn 11...
    Latest Owner or Location:Gregory L. Brubaker, Layton, UT

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-5.
    Ordered as O-62 but designation changed prior to delivery.

    31 March 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-14914.

    Aircraft remained stateside during WWII.

    By 1945

    Transferred to 553rd Base Unit, Bradley Field, CT.

    2 July 1945

    Damaged.
    Ground looped at Bradley Field, CT.

    14 November 1945

    Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
    Transferred to the RFC for disposal as surplus property.

    16 July 1957

    Certificate of airworthiness for N55440 (L-5, 1120) issued.

    1957

    To unknown owner with c/r N55440.


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: I shot this in the 1970s in Homestead General Airport Homestead, FL when registered N55440.

    Circa 1988

    To unknown owner with c/r N4914.

    Circa 1988

    Markings Applied: Swamp Angel
    Marked as aircraft with the 25th Liaison Squadron, 71st Recon Group, 5th Air Force that operated out of New Guinea in 1944.

    24 October 1991

    To Darrell C. Eastman, Novato, CA keeping c/r N4914.

    15 June 2007

    To Gregory L. Brubaker, Layton, UT keeping c/r N4914.

    Based at Commemorative Air Force-Utah Wing, Heber City Municipal Airport, Heber, UT.
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    24 July 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Keokuk, IA

    24 July 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Keokuk, IA

    24 July 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Keokuk, IA

    26 July 2010


    Photographer: Todd Royer
    Notes: Airventure 2010

    1 January 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for N4914 (L-5, 1120) issued.

    Circa 1 January 2016

    To Elton R. Russell, Torrance, CA keeping c/r N4914.

    8 January 2018

    Civil registration, N4914, cancelled.

    22 June 2018

    To Gregory L. Brubaker, Layton, UT with new c/r N4914.
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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
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Aviation Archaeology
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Utah Military Vehicle Club
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    James Gray
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