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    Airframe Family: Boeing B40
    Latest Model:40C
    Construction Number:1043
    Last Civil Registration:N5339
    Latest Owner or Location:Western Antique Aeroplane and Auto Museum, Hood River Jernstedt Airfield, Hood River, Oregon

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    Dates

    Event

    12 June 1928

    Constructed as a 40C.
    Construction completed and initial airworthiness assigned on this date.

    To Pacific Air Transport.

    To unknown owner with c/r C5339.

    2 October 1928

    Crashed.
    Crashed near Canyonville, OR. Pilot Grant Donaldson survives, sole passenger killed.

    1996

    Recovered.
    Recovered by Ron Bartley and the Oregon Aviation Historical Society, Cottage Grove, OR.

    9 June 2000

    To Addison J. Pemberton, Spokane, WA with new c/r N5339.

    9 June 2000

    To Addison J. Pemberton, Spokane, WA with new c/r N5839.

    Based at Pemberton and Sons, Felts Field, Spokane, WA.
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    Restored.

    First flight.
    First post restoration flight by Addison Pemberton. This makes the aircraft the oldest flying Boeing in the world.

    22 March 2008


    Photographer: Ryan Pemberton

    8 May 2010


    Photographer: Ryan Pemberton

    16 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Reno Air Races.

    10 July 2011

    At the Annual Fly-In at Arlington, Washington State.

    20 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 Photo of the oldest flying Boeing aircraft in the world - the 1928 Model 40C - at home base of Spokane, Felts Field

    20 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: References to the two pilots that have flown this aircraft - one in 1928 and one in 2012

    20 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 Photo Flying Controls of the oldest flying Boeing aircraft in the world - the 1928 Model 40C - at home base of Spokane, Felts Field

    20 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 Photo of the oldest flying Boeing aircraft in the world - the 1928 Model 40C - at home base of Spokane, Felts Field

    20 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Carries 4 passengers, in 2 sets of 2 staggered seating - surprisingly, most comfortable

    20 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 Photo of the oldest flying Boeing aircraft in the world - the 1928 Model 40C - at home base of Spokane, Felts Field - and the reason the plane exists as it does today - the dedication and drive of Restorer, Addison Pemberton and his Sons

    11 October 2017

    To Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum, Hood River, OR with new c/r N5339.

    Based at Western Antique Aeroplane and Auto Museum, Hood River Jernstedt Airfield, Hood River, OR.
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    9 September 2018


    Photographer: Gary Maisack
    Notes: At the WAAAM Fly-In Sept. 2018 -Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum - Hood River, OR


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    Terry Fletcher
    Ryan Pemberton

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