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    Airframe Family: Rearwin 8090/8125/8135 Cloudster
    Latest Model:8135 Cloudster
    Construction Number:828
    Last Civil Registration:N4404W
    Compressed ID:Rearwin 8135 cn 828 cr N4404W
    Latest Owner or Location:EAA Aviation Foundation Inc, Oshkosh, WI

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    Dates

    Event

    1940

    Constructed as a 8135.

    1940

    To Coffeyville Airway Corporation, Coffeyville, KS with new c/r NC25552.

    March 1943

    To Defense Plant Corporation, Washington, DC keeping c/r NC25552.

    6 July 1943

    Damaged.
    Pilot Jack Howard Graham, at South Coffeyville, OK, made forced landing after engine failure on takeoff. Substantial damage; later repaired.

    April 1944

    To James Emmett Combs, Kansas City, MO keeping c/r NC25552.

    June 1949

    To Omar Midyett, East Saint. Louis, IL keeping c/r NC25552.

    September 1950

    To unknown owner with c/r NC25552.

    Circa 1962

    To Noel Gouldsmith, Independence, MO keeping c/r NC25552.
    Owner restored the aircraft.

    May 1971

    To William Kloek, Saint. Paul, MN keeping c/r NC25552.

    April 1992

    To Frank B. Hay, Nisswa, MN with new c/r N4404W.
    Kept stored in shed, in pieces.

    2 September 1998

    To Frank B. Hay, Racine, WI keeping c/r N4404W.

    May 2002

    To Edward C. McKeown, Eagle River, WI keeping c/r N4404W.

    September 2002

    Transported by ground.
    Moved to Eagle Riger.

    After September 2002

    Restored.
    Aircraft moved to Eagle River, WI and restoration began.

    5 September 2009


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Blakesburg, IA

    28 July 2010


    Photographer: Todd Royer
    Notes: Airventure 2010

    7 November 2012

    To EAA Aviation Foundation Inc, Oshkosh, WI keeping c/r N4404W.

    26 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the EAA Museum at Oshkosh

    14 February 2018

    Civil registration, N4404W, cancelled.
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Vintage Aircraft Association
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     Glenn Chatfield
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