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    Airframe Family: Cessna 318 / 405 / T-37 Tweet / A-37 Dragonfly
    Latest Model:OA-37B Dragonfly
    Last Military Serial:70-1293 USAF
    Construction Number:43308
    Compressed ID:Cessna OA-37B sn 70-1293 USAF cn 43...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hurlburt Field Memorial Airpark, Hurlburt Field (South West Side), Fort Walton Beach, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-37B.

    10 May 1971

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 70-1293.

    From 10 May 1971 to March 1991

    Transferred to 172nd Tactical Air Support Squadron, 110th Tactical Air Support Group, Michigan Air National Guard, Battle Creek, MI.

    1980

    Redesignated as OA-37B.

    March 1991

    Withdrawn from use and displayed at 110th Tactical Airlift Wing, Michigan ANG, Battle Creek, MI. (From: Hurlburt Fields 1st Special Operations Wing History Office).

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to 1 SOMSG/CD, Hurlburt Field, FL.

    1996

    To Air Commando Park, Hurlburt Field (South West Side), Fort Walton Beach, FL.
    Markings added: EK
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    6 September 2002


    Photographer: Timothy Aanerud

    Circa 2003


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: A Hurlburt Field memorial park.

    12 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    To Hurlburt Field Memorial Airpark, Hurlburt Field (South West Side), Fort Walton Beach, FL.
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