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    Airframe Family: Grumman G-111/SA-16/HU-16/UF Albatross
    Latest Model:SHU-16B Albatross
    Last Military Serial:566 FACh
    Construction Number:G-055
    Last Civil Registration:N16HU {2}
    Compressed ID:Grumman SHU-16B sn 566 FACh cn G-05...
    Latest Owner or Location:Eagles Nest Aerodrome, Crescent City, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PF-1A.

    1950

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 124320.
    The Navy did not take the aircraft on strength, but procured it for the USAF.

    31 March 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 49-0097 as a SA-16A.

    1957

    Converted to a SA-16B by Grumman at Bethpage, New York.

    1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea de Chile with s/n 566.

    12 July 1962

    Converted to a SHU-16B.

    1979

    To Confederate Air Force with new c/r N8064N.

    October 1979

    To Resorts International Inc/Chalks International Airline, Miami, FL keeping c/r N8064N.

    1984

    To Dusemses Company Inc, Miami, FL keeping c/r N8064N.

    September 1987

    To Dennis G. Buehn, Reno NV keeping c/r N8064N.

    To Air and Sea Service Inc, Miami FL keeping c/r N8064N.

    June 1989

    To Westernair Inc, Albuquerque, NM with new c/r N16HU {2}.

    July 1989


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Oahkosh.

    1990

    To Eloy S. Vallina, Chihuahua, Mexico with new c/r XB-FKX.

    17 July 1995

    To Westernair Inc, Albuquerque, NM with new c/r N16HU {2}.

    25 September 1998

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX16HU {2} (HU-16, 49-097) issued.

    3 February 1999

    To Land Air and Sea Restoration Inc, Crescent City, FL keeping c/r N16HU {2}.

    29 July 2001


    Photographer: Peter Clukey
    Notes: At EAA AirVenture 2001 Seaplane Base

    3 April 2003


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Sun-n-Fun, Lakeland FL

    26 June 2004


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Davenport, IA

    26 June 2004


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Davenport, IA

    26 August 2006


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Indianapolis Air Show, Indianapolis IN

    To Eagles Nest Aerodrome, Crescent City, FL.
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    4 February 2023

    Civil registration, N16HU {2}, cancelled.
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