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    Airframe Family: Bucker Bu-181 Bestmann
    Latest Model:Z-381
    Construction Number:461
    Last Civil Registration:N181BU
    Compressed ID:Zlin Z-381 cn 461 cr N181BU
    Latest Owner or Location:Fantasy of Flight / Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Z-381 by Zlin at Czechoslovakia.

    To unknown owner with c/r OK-AVC.

    To unknown owner with c/r OO-AVC.

    17 June 1987

    To David Michael Fenton, Cramond, West End, Seaton Ross, York with new c/r G-AMYA.

    31 October 1996

    Civil registration, G-AMYA, cancelled.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-AMYA.

    31 October 1996

    To David Michael Fenton, Cramond, West End, Seaton Ro with new c/r N181BU.

    Circa 6 April 2001


    Photographer: Norm Jukes
    Notes: Photographed at the Fantasy of Flight, FL.

    6 April 2002


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Fantasy of Flight, Polk City FL

    To Fantasy of Flight/Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL.
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    Markings Applied: AM+YA, W.No.461

    31 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Fantasy of Flight, Polk City, Florida, United States
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