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    Airframe Family: Aero L-39 Albatros
    Latest Model:L-39C Albatros
    Last Military Serial:63 red VVS
    Construction Number:432833
    Last Civil Registration:N139GS
    Compressed ID:Aero L-39C sn 63 red VVS cn 432833...
    Latest Owner or Location:Warbird Education Foundation, Frisco, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-39C.

    1984

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily with s/n 63 red.

    July 2000

    To Pride Aircraft, Rockford, IL.

    10 June 2002

    To HIS Investments Llc, Dover, DE with new c/r N139GS.

    5 February 2009

    To Warbird Education Foundation, Frisco, TX keeping c/r N139GS.
    Member of The Hoppers Air Show Team.

    12 May 2009


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA

    29 July 2009


    Photographer: Todd Royer
    Notes: EAA Airventure 2009

    24 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Oshkosh

    1 September 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Davenport, IA during Quad Cities Air Show. Crashed in the afternoon.

    1 September 2012

    Crashed.
    There was one fatality. The accident occurred at Davenport, IA, United States. The airframe was destroyed. The accident airplane was one of three airplanes in an airshow performance. After overflying the spectators and while flying away from the flight line, the airplanes executed a a crossover breaka maneuver, at the beginning of which the accident airplane was in the left wing position...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.
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