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    Airframe Family: Aeronca 50/65 / L-3 Champion / LNR / O-58 / TG-5 / TG-33
    Latest Model:L-3B Grasshopper
    Last Military Serial:FAEC9 CAC
    Construction Number:058B-9093
    Last Civil Registration:N47139
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, Michigan

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as a L-3B.

    1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-26772.

    1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Cuban Army Corps with s/n FAEC9.

    1943

    Assigned to Columbia Camp. Used by Academia Nacional de Aviation Civil, Reserva Aerea (ANACRA) to train civilian pilots through use of military instructors.

    By September 1958

    To unknown owner with c/r N47139.

    24 September 1958

    Certificate of airworthiness for N47139 (0-58B, 058B9093) issued.

    17 April 1986

    To Kalamazoo Avn History Museum, Portage, MI keeping c/r N47139.

    By September 1995

    Based at Air Zoo, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
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    24 September 2007


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    18 September 2017

    Civil registration, N47139, cancelled.

    To Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
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     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
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Wings Palette
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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