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    Airframe Family: Taylorcraft BC / BF / BL / DC / DCO / DF / DL / L-2 Grasshopper
    Latest Model:L-2M Grasshopper
    Last Military Serial:43-26753 USAAF
    Construction Number:06065
    Compressed ID:Taylorcraft L-2M sn 43-26753 USAAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover AFB, Dover, Delaware

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-2M.

    1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-26753.

    1964

    To United States Air Force Museum, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    July 1971

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    6 May 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    6 May 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    November 2015

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    13 November 2015

    Loaned to Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover AFB, Dover, DE.
    Flown from NMUSAF in C-17A.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
    Peter Nicholson
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