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    Airframe Family: Travel Air 2000 / 3000 / 4000 / 6000 Travel Air / CW-12 / CW-14
    Latest Model:3000
    Construction Number:0321
    Last Civil Registration:N3947
    Compressed ID:Travel Air 3000 cn 0321 cr N3947
    Latest Owner or Location:Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, Ellsinore, MO

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    Dates

    Event

    1928

    Constructed as a 3000.

    1929

    To Ben Catlin with new c/r NR3947.

    1938

    Featured in the 1938 movie - Men with Wings.

    Circa 1938


    Photographer: Stan Staples
    Notes: Travel Air 3000 NR3947 still painted as used in the movie - Men With Wings - working as a crop duster about 1938.

    6 March 1981

    Certificate of airworthiness for N3947 (3000, 321) issued.

    June 1986


    Photographer: Dick Hopkins
    Notes: Photographed at a Travel Air fly-in.

    June 1986


    Photographer: Dick Hopkins
    Notes: Photographed at a Travel Air fly-in.

    14 November 1989

    To Sangamon Packet Company, Petersburg, IL with new c/r N3947.

    1 January 2006

    Certificate of airworthiness for N3947 (3000, 321) issued.

    12 July 2007

    To Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, Ellsinore, MO keeping c/r N3947.

    Based at Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, Creve Coeur Airport, Saint Louis, MO.
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    3 September 2012


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: at Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, Creve Coeur Airport, Saint Louis, MO.

    24 May 2017

    To Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, Ellsinore, MO keeping c/r N3947.

    30 January 2021

    Civil registration, N3947, cancelled.
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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