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    Airframe Family: Ryan XV-5 Vertifan
    Latest Model:XV-5B Vertifan
    Last Military Serial:705 NASA
    Last Civil Registration:N705NA
    Compressed ID:Ryan XV-5B sn 705 NASA cr N705NA
    Latest Owner or Location:United States Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Enterprise, Alabama

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a XV-5A.

    1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 62-4506.

    5 October 1966

    Crashed.
    Extensively damaged during trials as a rescue aircraft, when the test dummy was ingested into a wing fan. Pilot died of injuries.

    1967

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with s/n 705.

    Converted to a XV-5B.
    Repaired from crash and converted.

    24 June 1968

    First post-restoration Flight.

    25 June 1969

    To National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Moffett Field, CA with new c/r N705NA.


    Your Assistance is Needed: Sources differ as to when testing ended; either 1971 or 1974. If you have information about the end of the test program, please edit the dossier or contact the admin
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    11 March 1974

    Civil registration, N705NA, cancelled.

    30 June 1983

    To United States Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Enterprise, AL.
    Arrived from Moffett Field this date.
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    29 June 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    14 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: In the storage yard

    14 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    4 April 2008


    Photographer: Nigel Roling
    Notes: On display without markings at Fort Rucker 04-04-2008

    January 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Army Aircraft Since 1947 by Stephen Harding GC
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    VSTOL.org
    Wikipedia
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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