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    Airframe Family: Aero Design and Engineering Company 360 / 500 / 600 / 700 / 800 / 900 / U-4 / U-9 / L-26 Commander
    Latest Model:U-4A
    Last Military Serial:55-4640 US
    Construction Number:560A-252
    Last Civil Registration:N23041
    Compressed ID:Aero Commander U-4A sn 55-4640 US c...
    Latest Owner or Location:United States Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Enterprise, Alabama

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    Event

    Constructed as a VL-26B-AD by Aero Commander at Bethany, OK, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 55-4640.

    Redesignated as L-26B-AD.

    1962

    Redesignated as U-4A.

    To unknown owner with c/r N4988B.

    To unknown owner with c/r N23041.

    By June 1990

    To United States Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Enterprise, AL.
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    29 June 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    2 May 2019

    Truncated fuselage without tail noted outside Blackwell Field Aviation College, AL, hangarage. Identified from data-block.
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