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    Airframe Family: Great Lakes 2T Sports Trainer
    Latest Model:2T-1 Sports Trainer
    Construction Number:191
    Last Civil Registration:N304Y
    Latest Owner or Location:Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum, Rhinebeck, NY

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 2T-1.

    To unknown owner with c/r N304Y.

    Cole Palen found the Great Lakes in the body of a wrecked tractor-trailer where it had been stored for approximately 25 years. It was restored by Cole, Mike Lockhart and Andy Keefe in Florida in the early 1970s.

    To Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, Rhinebeck, NY.
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    25 May 1975


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: As NC304Y this Great Lakes Trainer was present at Rhinebeck in the summer of 1975.

    5 June 1977


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: One of the Great Lakes trainers as NC304Y at the Rhinebeck Airshow in June 1977.

    August 1981


    Photographer: David Lednicer
    Notes: On display on the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum flight line

    29 September 2007


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
    Notes: Yes, this is Cole Palens original Great Lakes biplane, dating to 1931. She is powered by a 175-hp inline engine.

    Circa 29 April 2013

    Certificate of airworthiness for N304Y (2T-1, 191) issued.

    29 April 2013

    To Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum, Rhinebeck, NY keeping c/r N304Y.

    10 October 2015


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed in Hangar 4 at Old Rhinebeck
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