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    Airframe Family: Cessna 172 Skyhawk / T-41 Mescalero
    Latest Model:T-41C Mescalero
    Last Military Serial:68-7876 USAF
    Construction Number:R172-0267
    Last Civil Registration:N7876N
    Compressed ID:Cessna T-41C sn 68-7876 USAF cn R17...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aero Club, Tipton Airport (formerly Tipton AAF), Fort Meade, Maryland

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    Dates

    Event

    1967

    Constructed as a T-41C.

    2 December 1967

    Certificate of airworthiness for N7876N (R172E, R172-0267) issued.

    Circa 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 68-7876.

    5 March 1998

    To United States Air Force Owner, Fort Meade, MD with new c/r N7876N.

    Based at Aero Club, Tipton Airport (formerly Tipton AAF), Fort Meade, MD.
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    28 July 2012


    Photographer: Mark Pasqualino
    Notes: At Oshkosh

    3 February 2020

    Civil registration, N7876N, cancelled.
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