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    Airframe Family: Cessna 170 / 305 / L-19 / O-1 / OE / 325 / SIAI-Marchetti SM.1019
    Latest Model:O-1A Bird Dog
    Last Military Serial:51-12552 US
    Construction Number:23007
    Last Civil Registration:N33455
    Compressed ID:Cessna O-1A sn 51-12552 US cn 23007...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aircraft Guaranty Corp Trustee, Onalaska, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-19A-CE by Cessna at Wichita, Kansas, USA.

    Circa 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 51-12552.

    September 1962

    Redesignated as O-1A.

    3 September 1999

    To Thomas C. Cagney, Clio, MI with new c/r N33455.

    29 August 2011

    To Aircraft Guaranty Corp-Trustee, Onalaska, TX keeping c/r N33455.
    Markings added: 112552

    2015

    In private ownership in Kroissenbrunner, Austria.

    14 April 2015

    To Aircraft Guaranty Corp Trustee, Onalaska, TX keeping c/r N33455.

    26 June 2015


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At the 2015 Historic Aircraft Group Fly-Party at Montagnana, Italy

    23 February 2019


    Photographer: Markus Tatscher
    Notes: Air to Air shooting Wels Austria

    23 February 2019


    Photographer: Dietmar Schreiber
    Notes: Air to Air shooting Wels Austira 2019

    23 February 2019


    Photographer: Markus Tatscher
    Notes: Air to Air shooting Wels Austria 2019

    11 September 2021


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Celebrating 25 years of Austrian Aviation Museum, Voeslau, Austria


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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

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    Terry Fletcher
    Fred Kroissenbrunner

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