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    Airframe Family: Grumman G-111/SA-16/HU-16/UF Albatross
    Latest Model:HU-16C Albatross
    Last Military Serial:141265 USN
    Construction Number:G-412
    Last Civil Registration:N265ES
    Latest Owner or Location:Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UF-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 141265.

    Transferred to Commander Taiwan Patrol Force, USS Salsbury Sound AV-12.

    Redesignated as HU-16C.

    15 May 1998

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR265ES (HU-16, 141265) issued.

    25 June 1998

    To Gulf Trading Group Inc, Hallandale, FL with new c/r N265ES.

    Based at Opa Locka Airport, Opa Locka, FL.
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    21 October 2000


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At Opa Locka, FL

    2 August 2006

    To James W. Doane, Scottsdale, AZ with new c/r N265ES.

    1 January 2015

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR265ES (HU-16, 141265) issued.

    Based at Miami International Airport, Miami, FL.
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    12 February 2018

    Civil registration, N265ES, cancelled.
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    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood
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