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    Airframe Family: Pilatus P-3 / PC-7
    Latest Model:P-3-05
    Last Military Serial:A-837 SwiAF
    Construction Number:475-24
    Last Civil Registration:N837A
    Compressed ID:Pilatus P-3-05 sn A-837 SwiAF cn 47...
    Latest Owner or Location:Falcon Field, Phoenix, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    1958

    Constructed as a P-3-05.

    1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n A-837.

    1958

    Transferred to Pilot School 1, Sion, Switzerland.

    4 June 1992

    To Francois P. Babel, Santa Teresa, NM with new c/r N837A.

    22 July 1992

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX837A (P3-05, 475-24) issued.

    8 August 1992


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL

    1992

    Loaned to War Eagles Air Museum, Santa Teresa, NM.

    17 January 1998

    To Matterhorn Aviation Llc, Santa Teresa, NM keeping c/r N837A.

    4 April 2012

    To Roland J. Downs, Mesa, AZ keeping c/r N837A.

    Based at Falcon Field, Phoenix, AZ.
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    9 February 2018

    Civil registration, N837A, cancelled.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Air History.org
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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