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    Airframe Family: Aero L-39
    Latest Model:L-39C Albatros
    Last Military Serial:30 White PSU
    Construction Number:132130
    Last Civil Registration:N139VS
    Compressed ID:Aero L-39C sn 30 White PSU cn 13213...
    Latest Owner or Location:Little Texan Llc, Brighton, MI

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-39C.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Povitryani Syly Ukrayiny with s/n 30 White.

    27 November 2002

    To Tim C. Morgan, Arlington, WA with new c/r N139VA.

    15 January 2003

    To Niels E. Valentiner, Salt Lake City, UT keeping c/r N139VA.

    28 February 2003

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX139VS (L-39, 132130) issued.

    Based at Salt Lake City International Airport, Salt Lake City, UT.
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    Photographer: Ron Staley
    Notes: post restoration

    7 April 2010

    To Little Texan Llc, Brighton, MI keeping c/r N139VA.

    18 June 2010

    To Little Texan Llc, Brighton, MI with new c/r N139VS.

    25 July 2012


    Photographer: Todd Royer
    Notes: EAA Airventure 2012

    9 February 2014

    Last CR action date noted here.

    24 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2017 AirVenture at Oshkosh

    1 June 2023

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX139VS (L-39, 132130) issued.

    27 July 2023


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: N139VS with small Ukrainian flag at AirVenture 2023, Oshkosh, WI


    Credits
    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
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall

    Internet Sources
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    YouTube

    Individual Contributors
    Terry Fletcher
    Thorsten Ruchel

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