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    Airframe Family: Taylorcraft BC / BF / BL / DC / DCO / DF / DL / L-2 Grasshopper
    Latest Model:L-2M Grasshopper
    Last Military Serial:43-26433 USAAF
    Construction Number:05745
    Last Civil Registration:N53792
    Compressed ID:Taylorcraft L-2M sn 43-26433 USAAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aerospace Museum of California, McClellan AFB (formerly), Sacramento, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-2M.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-26433.

    26 October 1984

    Certificate of airworthiness for N53792 issued.

    11 September 1985

    Placed on display with Aerospace Museum of California, McClellan AFB (formerly), Sacramento, CA.
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    8 September 1993

    To unknown owner with c/r N53792.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma.

    Markings Applied: 5745

    30 January 2013

    Civil registration, N53792, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma.

    31 August 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Aerospace Museum of California, Sacramento, CA.

    31 August 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Aerospace Museum of California, Sacramento, CA.

    30 September 2019


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at McClellan, CA, U.S.A.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2019/2020 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
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