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    Airframe Family: Pilatus P-3 / PC-7
    Latest Model:PC-7 Astra
    Last Military Serial:A-901 SwiAF
    Construction Number:509-58
    Last Civil Registration:HB-HOZ
    Compressed ID:Pilatus PC-7 sn A-901 SwiAF cn 509-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fliegermuseum Dubendorf, Dubendorf Airport, Dubendorf, Zurich

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P-3-05.

    24 September 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n A-871.

    To Pilatus Flugzeugwerke AG, Stans with new c/r HB-HOZ.
    Returned to Pilatus to conversion to the PC-7 configuration.

    Converted to a PC-7.

    8 September 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Second prototype Pilatus PC-7 Turbo Trainer on display at the 1978 Farnborough Airshow.

    22 June 1979

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n A-901.

    7 June 1982

    To Pilatus with new c/r HB-HOZ.

    29 August 2001

    To Fliegermuseum Dubendorf, Dubendorf Airport, Dubendorf, Zurich.
    View the Location Dossier

    2008


    Photographer: Andy West

    3 April 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Dubendorf, Switzerland

    3 April 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Dubendorf, Switzerland
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2018 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Aerodata Quantum+
    Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
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