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    Airframe Family: Schneider Grunau Baby / DFS 108 / Nord 1300
    Latest Model:Grunau Baby IIb
    Last Military Serial:VW744 RN
    Construction Number:1-14
    Last Civil Registration:N20GB
    Latest Owner or Location:Lawrenceville Vincennes International Airport (LWV), Lawrenceville, Illinois

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Grunau Baby IIb by Schneider DFS.

    From 1 September 1947 to 21 March 1949

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n VW744.

    Circa 1995

    To unknown owner with c/r N20GB.

    1 May 2001

    To Leland K. Cowie, Jonesburg, MO.

    Markings Applied: VW744
    Royal Navy.

    8 October 2011


    Photographer: Massey Aerodrome FlickR
    Notes: At Massey Aerodrome, Maryland

    Based at Lawrenceville Vincennes International Airport (LWV), Lawrenceville, IL.
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