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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:Super Chipmunk
    Construction Number:189
    Last Civil Registration:N540FM
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Super Chipmunk...
    Latest Owner or Location:James L. Maroney, Brookfield, WI

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DHC-1 by de Havilland Canada at Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    10 July 1979

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX540FM (DHC-1, 189) issued.

    10 September 1991

    To James L. Maroney, Vancouver, WA with new c/r N540FM.

    To Pearson Airpark Airport, Vancouver, WA.
    View the Location Dossier

    20 March 2004


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Thunder in the Valley, Columbus GA

    28 April 2006

    To James L. Maroney, Vancouver, WA keeping c/r N540FM.

    1 January 2010

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX540FM (DHC-1, 189) issued.

    Circa 1 January 2010

    To James L. Maroney, Memphis, TN keeping c/r N540FM.

    28 July 2010


    Photographer: Todd Royer
    Notes: EAA Airventure 2010

    7 February 2012

    To James L. Maroney, Brookfield, WI keeping c/r N540FM.

    Converted to a Super Chipmunk.

    Converted to a Super Chipmunk.

    23 March 2014

    Crashed.
    There was one fatality. The accident occurred at Vonore, TN, United States. The damage was substantial. On the morning of the accident, the pilot contacted a flight service station for a weather briefing for a visual flight rules (VFR) flight from Wisconsin to Georgia. The briefer told the pilot that VFR flight was not recommended from southern Kentucky through Tennessee and into north Georgia. He also stated that there was an Airmet for mountain obscuration for the same area until 1400...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    7 February 2018

    Civil registration, N540FM, cancelled.
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    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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