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    Airframe Family: Taylorcraft A / J-2 / J-3 / J-4 / J-5 / L-4/O-59/C-83 Grasshopper / L-18 Super Cub / L-21 Super Grasshopper / PA-11/PA-18/PA-19
    Latest Model:L-4J Grasshopper
    Last Military Serial:44-80110 USAAF
    Construction Number:12406
    Last Civil Registration:SP-AHB
    Compressed ID:Piper L-4J sn 44-80110 USAAF cn 124...
    Latest Owner or Location:Letecke Muzeum (Aviation Museum of the Military Historical Institute), Kbely, Praha (Prague), Prague

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1944

    Constructed as a L-4J by Piper.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-80110.
    Delivered at Lock Haven, PA, USA.

    Transferred to US Army Ground Forces.

    Transported by ship.
    To Europe.

    21 March 1945

    Transferred to 23rd Mobile Reclamation and Repair Squadron, Artillery Air Section, Ninth US Army, Munchen-Gladbach [Y-56], Germany.

    23 March 1945

    Transferred to 50th Mobile Reclamation and Repair Squadron.

    17 April 1945

    Transferred to 29th Infantry Division Artillery.

    1945

    Transferred to 9th Air Force, USAAF, Europe.

    By 1946

    Assigned to Goppingen, Germany for storage.

    December 1946

    To Polish Ministry of Communications.

    By March 1947

    Transported by rail
    To Slupsk, Poland.

    Repaired.

    By 1950

    To Liga Lotnicza (Aviation League) with new c/r SP-AHB.

    Circa 1950


    Photographer: W. Leja
    Notes: In flight over Poland.

    14 December 1972

    Donated by the Polish Aeroclub to the Kbely Aviation Museum.

    To Letecke Muzeum (Aviation Museum of the Military Historical Institute), Kbely, Praha (Prague), Prague.
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    From 1973 to 1974

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: 10, 12234
    Livery representing ex USAAF Piper L-4H s/n 44-79938, c/n 12234 that served after WW2 in the Czechoslovak Army Aviation.

    8 October 2016


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At Letecke Muzeum, Praha-Kbely, Czech Republic
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     Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Mike Henniger
    Marcin Rogowski
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