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    Airframe Family: Grumman G-111/SA-16/HU-16/UF Albatross
    Latest Model:UF-1G Albatross
    Last Military Serial:7216 USCG
    Construction Number:G-292
    Compressed ID:Grumman UF-1G sn 7216 USCG cn G-292...
    Latest Owner or Location:Historic Aircraft Restoration Project, NAS Brooklyn, New York, New York

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SA-16B by Grumman at Bethpage, New York.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-7216.

    1962

    Redesignated as HU-16B.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Coast Guard with s/n 7216.

    Redesignated as UF-1G.

    From 1984 to 2001

    To Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York, NY.
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    25 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    2001

    To Historic Aircraft Restoration Project, NAS Brooklyn, New York, NY.
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    14 July 2009


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
    Notes: After many years, the Historic Aircraft Restoration Project at Floyd Bennet Field is giving this aircraft the attention she deserves
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