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    Airframe Family: Cessna 310 / 320 / L-27/U-3 Blue Canoe
    Latest Model:U-3A Blue Canoe
    Last Military Serial:58-2183 USAF
    Construction Number:38157
    Last Civil Registration:N182Z
    Compressed ID:Cessna U-3A sn 58-2183 USAF cn 3815...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an U-3A.

    Circa 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 58-2183.

    25 January 1972

    To U. S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Atlanta, GA with new c/r N182Z (310A, 38157).
    Operated with markings: U.S.F.S.

    By January 1996

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    Circa 1997


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At the Pima Museum, Arizona.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    12 November 2012


    Photographer: Chris Kennedy
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