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    This page documents a history of a specific aircraft. The details provided vary from aircraft to aircraft and are dependent on the research and amount of data uploaded to the Aerial Visuals database.

    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-21C Super Cub
    Last Military Serial:MM54-2586 EI
    Construction Number:18-3986
    Last Civil Registration:F-HLBC
    Compressed ID:Piper L-21C sn MM54-2586 EI cn 18-3...
    Latest Owner or Location:Airport, Darois, Bourgogne

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-21C by Piper.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Esercito Italiano with s/n MM54-2586.

    To unknown owner with c/r N786CS.

    From 13 June 1996 to 23 May 1997

    To Cormack Aircraft Sales Ltd with new c/r G-BWUB.

    4 June 1997

    To Warren F. Chmura Trustee, Cornwall TR19 7NS with new c/r N786CS.

    12 June 1998

    Civil registration, N786CS, cancelled.

    15 June 1998

    To Caledonian Seaplanes Ltd, Struan Hall, Calvine, Pitlochry keeping c/r G-BWUB.

    24 July 2010


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At Dundee, Scotland, UK

    23 November 2012

    Civil registration, G-BWUB, cancelled.

    21 January 2015

    To AERO Restauration Service, Dijon with new c/r F-HLBC.

    Based at Airport, Darois, Bourgogne.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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     Terry Fletcher
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