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    Airframe Family: Cessna T-50/AT-17/C-78 Bobcat / Crane
    Latest Model:UC-78B Bobcat
    Last Military Serial:42-39296 USAAF
    Construction Number:3505
    Last Civil Registration:N75609
    Latest Owner or Location:Museu Aeroespacial (Aerospace Museum), Campo dos Afonsos, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UC-78B.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-39296.

    By April 1943

    Transferred to 869th Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, Blackland Army Air Field, Waco, TX.

    30 April 1943

    Damaged.
    Taxi accident, pilot George C. Schmucker.

    1 May 1943

    Damaged.
    Landing accident, belly landing at Temple, TX. Pilot John F. Leonberger, Jr.

    5 May 1945

    Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus, OK.

    Circa August 1967

    Certificate of airworthiness for N75609 (T-50, 3505) issued.

    By August 1967

    To unknown owner with c/r N75609.

    14 November 1981


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Bob White Field Airport (Zellwood, FL, USA)

    2 March 1990

    Civil registration, N75609, cancelled.

    To Museu Aeroespacial (Aerospace Museum), Campo dos Afonsos, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro.
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    Markings Applied: 22
    False Registration - PP-LDQ.

    6 October 2012


    Photographer: David Osborn
    Notes: Displayed at The Museu Aeroespacial, at Campo dos Afonsos, Brazil


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