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    Airframe Family: Aero L-39
    Latest Model:L-39ZA Albatros
    Last Military Serial:130 blk FARo
    Construction Number:132030
    Last Civil Registration:ZU-FMN
    Compressed ID:Aero L-39ZA sn 130 blk FARo cn 1320...
    Latest Owner or Location:G. O. Reid

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-39ZA.

    1981

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fortele Aeriene Romane with s/n 130 blk.

    30 October 2000

    To Worldwide Warbirds Inc, Phoenix-Deer Valley, AZ with new c/r N393ZA.

    Based at Worldwide Warbirds, Phoenix Deer Valley Municipal Airport, Phoenix, AZ.
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    From 9 March 2001 to By 2006

    To Warbird Exhibitors Inc, Wilmington, DE.

    18 March 2001

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX393ZA (L-39, 132030) issued.

    2 July 2001


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: This Aero L-39ZA originally flew for the Romanian AF as 130 red. Here it is in 2001 regd N393ZA. C/n 132030 went to S. Africa and flies on as ZU-FMN. Seen here at Deer Valley MAP in Phoenix, AZ.

    15 March 2007

    To RS Warbirds, Phoenix, AZ keeping c/r N393ZA.

    16 March 2007


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Deer Valley, AZ, USA

    Markings Applied: AZ, grey F-16

    18 January 2011

    Civil registration, N393ZA, cancelled.
    Exported to South Africa.

    November 2011

    To G. O. Reid with new c/r ZU-FMN.

    December 2011

    Assembled at Vereeniging Airport South Africa (FAVV).

    7 January 2012

    Flown to Rand Airport (FAGM) as ZU-FMN for repaint (NX393ZA still painted on in small letters on the fuselage).

    7 January 2012


    Photographer: Bruce Perkins
    Notes: Seen here arriving at Rand Airport (FAGM) as ZU-FMN for re-paint

    October 2013


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At Rand Airport, Germiston, South Africa

    3 January 2018

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX393ZA (L-39, 132030) issued.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Bruce Perkins
    Thorsten Ruchel
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