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    Airframe Family: Grumman G-21/JRF/OA-9/OA-13 Goose
    Latest Model:JRF-5 Goose
    Last Military Serial:127 FAPa
    Construction Number:B-029
    Last Civil Registration:N3283
    Compressed ID:Grumman JRF-5 sn 127 FAPa cn B-029...
    Latest Owner or Location:David Cushnir, Opa Locka, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a JRF-5.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 37776 as a JRF-5.

    3 May 1946

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Coast Guard with s/n 7776.

    1948

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armada de la Republica Argentina with s/n 0294 and operated with these markings: 3-P-25.

    From 1948 to 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armada de la Republica Argentina with s/n PM-5.

    1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea Paraguaya with s/n 127.

    1967

    To Dick Probert/Catalina Airlines, Long Beach, CA with new c/r N3283.

    1969

    To Walter B. Von Kleinsmid, Long Beach CA keeping c/r N3283.

    19 January 1970

    Certificate of airworthiness for N3283 (G-21A, B-29) issued.

    1971

    To Catalina Seaplanes, Long Beach CA keeping c/r N3283.

    From 1972 to 1984

    To Antilles Air Boats Inc, Saint Croix, USVI keeping c/r N3283.

    By 1979

    Withdrawn from use.

    By 1981

    Stored St Croix-Hamilton USVI after Antilles Air Boats ceased trading on 11 Sept 1981.

    March 1983


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Opa Locka, Florida

    31 March 1988

    To David Cushnir, Opa Locka, FL keeping c/r N3283.

    15 May 2013

    Civil registration, N3283, cancelled.

    1 January 2019

    Certificate of airworthiness for N3283 (G-21A, B-29) issued.
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     Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
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    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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