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    Airframe Family: Kreider-Reisner Challenger C-4 / KR-34
    Latest Model:ChallengerC-4
    Construction Number:384
    Last Civil Registration:N30M
    Latest Owner or Location:Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, Virginia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a ChallengerC-4.

    From 1929 to 1933

    To Interstate Flying Corporation of Philadelphia, PA with new c/r NC30M.

    From 1934 to 1934

    To Rising Sun Aircraft School of Philadelphia keeping c/r NC30M.

    1934

    To North Penn Airways keeping c/r NC30M.

    From 1938 to 1942

    To Katherine Markwell of Washington, D. C keeping c/r NC30M.

    By 1944

    To William R. Carter of Anacostia Station, D. C keeping c/r NC30M.

    From 1963 to 1964

    To Joan A. Kulp of Spotsylvania, VA with new c/r N30M.

    1977

    To Bud Williams of Madison, IN keeping c/r N30M.

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: North Penn Airways
    The aircraft was meticulously restored to its original configuration by Bud Williams. He decided to finish it in the off white with black trim and block lettering colors of North Penn Airways where it had been used it for an air taxi and charter service.

    27 June 1981


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: I shot this in Hamilton, Ohio.

    1984

    To Albert Redick of Reno, NV.

    5 December 1985

    To Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, VA.
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    2016


    Photographer: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
    Notes: On display in the Boeing Aviation Hangar room at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA.
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