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    Airframe Family: Cessna 310 / 320 / L-27/U-3 Blue Canoe
    Latest Model:U-3A Blue Canoe
    Last Military Serial:57-5922 US
    Construction Number:38077
    Latest Owner or Location:Grissom Air Museum, Grissom AFB, Peru - Kokomo, Indiana

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-27A-CE by Cessna at Wichita, KS, USA.

    Circa 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 57-5922.

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as U-3A.

    1970

    Transferred to 434th Special Operations Wing (AFRES), Grissom AFB, IN.

    1970

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 57-5922.
    Assigned to the USAR.

    6 April 1972

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number HM161.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    View the Location Dossier

    By 1989

    Loaned to Grissom Air Museum, Grissom AFB, Peru-Kokomo, IN.
    View the Location Dossier

    17 July 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Grissom Air Museum at Grissom AFB, Indiana.

    17 July 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Grissom Air Museum at Grissom AFB, Indiana.

    24 June 1999


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Photographed during rain

    15 May 2011


    Photographer: John Meneely
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    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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