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    Airframe Family: Grumman G-111/SA-16/HU-16/UF Albatross
    Latest Model:HU-16C Albatross
    Last Military Serial:137911 USN
    Construction Number:G-384
    Last Civil Registration:N7027Z
    Compressed ID:Grumman HU-16C sn 137911 USN cn G-3...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Classics Llc, Swanton, VT

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UF-1.

    5 February 1930

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR7027Z (HU-16, 137911) issued.

    16 November 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 137911.

    From December 1954 to June 1956

    Transferred to 15th Naval District, NAS Coco Solo, Panama, Canal Zone.

    From December 1956 to May 1957

    Transferred to NAS Annapolis, CA.

    From May 1957 to January 1959

    Transferred to 6th Naval District, NAS Jacksonville, FL.

    From January 1959 to May 1959

    Transferred to NAS Pensacola, FL.

    From September 1959 to December 1959

    Transferred to NAS Alameda, CA.

    From December 1959 to January 1962

    Transferred to 14th Naval District, NAS Midway Island.

    From May 1962 to March 1964

    Transferred to Pacific Missile Range (PMR), NAS Kwajalein, Marshall Islands.

    1962

    Redesignated as HU-16C.

    From January 1962 to May 1962

    Transferred to Fleet Air Western Pacific Repair Activity (Fawpra), NAF Atsugi, Japan.

    From March 1964 to October 1964

    Transferred to NAS Agana, Guam.

    From October 1964 to February 1965

    Transferred to Fleet Air Western Pacific Repair Activity (Fawpra), NAF Atsugi, Japan.

    From February 1965 to May 1967

    Transferred to NAS Agana, Guam.

    From May 1967 to September 1967

    Transferred to Fleet Air Western Pacific Repair Activity (Fawpra), NAF Atsugi, Japan.

    From September 1967 to November 1967

    Transferred to Naval Air Warfare Development Center (NAWD).

    From January 1970 to February 1970

    Transferred to NAS North Island, CA.

    5 March 1970

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 1U037.

    5 March 1970

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 1U037.

    May 1970

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC).

    23 September 1974


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: At the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center: Davis-Monthan A.F.B., Arizona

    To Defense Property Disposal Office (DPDO).

    To Grumman Aerospace Corp, Bethpage, NY.

    9 March 1981

    To Allied Aircraft Sales, Tucson, AZ.

    2 March 2000

    To Koven Jay, Larchmont, NY with new c/r N7027Z.

    30 May 2002

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR7027Z (HU-16, 137911) issued.

    Based at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
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    2008

    Based with Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison, TX.
    Donated to the museum.

    19 December 2008


    Photographer: Jay Curtiss

    Based at Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.
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    31 March 2009

    To Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison, TX with new c/r N7027Z.

    2 December 2014

    To unknown owner with c/r N7027Z.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Swanton, VT.

    7 January 2015

    To Air Classics Llc, Swanton, VT keeping c/r N7027Z.


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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden

    Internet Sources
    Cavanaugh Flight Museum
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America

    Individual Contributors
    Jay Curtiss
    Mike Henniger
    Steve Williams

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