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    Airframe Family: Fairchild 100
    Latest Model:Pilgrim - 100B
    Construction Number:6605
    Last Civil Registration:NC709Y
    Latest Owner or Location:Alaska Aviation Museum, Lake Hood, Anchorage, Alaska

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Pilgrim - 100B.

    December 1931

    To American Airways with new c/r NC709Y.

    August 1936

    To Alaska Air Express, Anchorage, Territory of Alaska keeping c/r NC709Y.

    4 February 1937

    To Gertrude Sasseen and Marion Nicholson, Anchorage, Territory of Alaska keeping c/r NC709Y.

    15 September 1937

    To Star Air Service, Anchorage, Territory of Alaska keeping c/r NC709Y.

    15 August 1938

    To Henry D. Thrall and E. L. Williams, Minneapolis, MN keeping c/r NC709Y.

    20 January 1940

    To Star Airlines, Anchorage, Territory of Alaska keeping c/r NC709Y.

    12 April 1944

    To Alaska Airlines keeping c/r NC709Y.

    2 August 1958

    To Charles E. Nichols, of Wenatchee, WA keeping c/r NC709Y.

    24 October 1958

    To Wenatchee Air Service Inc keeping c/r NC709Y.

    20 September 1960

    To Wenairco Inc keeping c/r NC709Y.

    29 March 1965

    To Bellingham Canning Co. Inc, of Yakutat, AK keeping c/r NC709Y.

    21 November 1967

    To Marine Foods Packing Co, of Yakutat, AK keeping c/r NC709Y.

    1 May 1971

    To Schenk Seafood Sales Inc as Bethel, AK keeping c/r NC709Y.

    23 December 1977

    To Ball Brothers Inc, of Anchorage, AK keeping c/r NC709Y.

    20 December 1982

    To Northern Pacific Transport Inc, of Anchorage, AK keeping c/r NC709Y.

    30 July 1992

    To Ball Brothers Inc, of Anchorage, AK keeping c/r NC709Y.

    10 August 1995

    To Joanne F. Carolyn P. and Susan L. Ball, of Anchorage, AK.

    30 October 1995

    To Ekuk Alaska Salmon, Kerriston Limited and Snowline.

    1998


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Anchorage, AK.

    22 January 1998

    To Kerriston Limited Partnership, of Kent, WA.

    2001

    To Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum,.
    Markings added: NC709Y

    To Alaska Aviation Museum, Lake Hood, Anchorage, AK.
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    13 May 2009


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: NC709Y being rebuild at Alaska Aviation Museum workshop, Lake Hood, AK

    9 July 2013


    Photographer: John W. Olafson
    Notes: Fairchild American Pilgrim 6605 built in 1931.This is one of only two aircraft which appears on the American National Register of Historic Places. Rebuilt by the Alaska Aviation Museum.


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