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    Airframe Family: Travel Air 2000 / 3000 / 4000 / 6000 Travel Air / CW-12 / CW-14
    Latest Model:4000
    Construction Number:0976
    Last Civil Registration:N8700
    Compressed ID:Travel Air 4000 cn 0976 cr N8700
    Latest Owner or Location:Richard Charles Smith, San Pedro, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1929

    Constructed as a 4000.

    To FARM Aero Services with new c/r NC8700.


    Photographer: Bill Miles

    By May 1960

    To Wayne J. Kempainen, Phoenix, AZ with new c/r N8700.

    By 1978

    To William A. Plaskett, Woodland Hills, CA keeping c/r N8700.

    12 February 1981

    To Richard Charles Smith, San Pedro, CA keeping c/r N8700.

    1 July 1981


    Photographer: Dick Hopkins
    Notes: Photographed at a cars meet at Stanford, CA.

    1 July 1981


    Photographer: Dick Hopkins
    Notes: Photographed at a cars meet at Stanford, CA.

    May 1982


    Photographer: Shawn Aro

    June 1986


    Photographer: Dick Hopkins
    Notes: Photographed at a Travel Air fly-in.

    29 November 2009

    Crashed.
    The accident occurred at the Zamperini Field Airport (TOA) Torrance, CA, United States while taxiing. The Travel Air pilot was taxiing down the 58-FOOT-WIDE asphalt lane that stretched between rows of hangar buildings toward a taxiway. Prior to beginning the taxi the pilot had visually checked the lane and had not observed any other aircraft in the lane between his position and the taxiway...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    28 September 2012


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At Flabob Airport, Riverside, California, United States
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