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    Airframe Family: Grumman G-44/J4F/OA-14 Widgeon
    Latest Model:Super Widgeon
    Construction Number:1464
    Last Civil Registration:N86638
    Latest Owner or Location:Waterwings Seaplanes Llc, Hoover, AL

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    Dates

    Event

    1 January 1946

    Constructed as a G-44A.

    1946

    To Grumman Aircraft Corp, Bethpage NY with new c/r NC86638.

    From 1948 to 1974

    To Union Oil Company, CA with new c/r N86638.

    From 1948 to 1974

    Based with Lafayette, LA.

    April 1956


    Photographer: Bill Bailey
    Notes: G-44A N86638 c/n 1464 at Big Bayou Pigeon April, 1956.This is what a working Widgeon looked like in the Louisiana oil fields, anchored to a spoil bank while the Field Engineer or a mechanic was off tending to business on the drilling rig.

    23 May 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N86638 (G-44A, 1464) issued.

    Converted to a Super Widgeon by McDermott.

    From 1963 to 1972

    To Union Oil Company of California, Houston TX keeping c/r N86638.

    1977

    To Michael Maxwell, Anchorage AK keeping c/r N86638.

    1982

    To Lynn W. Wyatt, Anchorage AK keeping c/r N86638.

    November 1983

    To Richard Taylor, Anchorage AK keeping c/r N86638.

    December 1984

    To Robert R. Taylor, Anchorage AK keeping c/r N86638.

    November 1988

    To Denny Leiann, Anchorage AK keeping c/r N86638.

    12 September 1990

    To Chester M. Lawson, Port Orange, FL keeping c/r N86638.

    20 July 1999

    To Chester M. Lawson, Daytona Beach, FL keeping c/r N86638.

    27 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2012 Sun N Fun, Lakeland, Florida

    10 August 2012

    To Chester M. Lawson, Port Orange, FL keeping c/r N86638.

    April 2014

    29 January 2018

    To H20flight Llc, Port Orange, FL keeping c/r N86638.

    5 December 2019

    To Waterwings Seaplanes Llc, Hoover, AL keeping c/r N86638.


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