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    Airframe Family: Kellett KD-1 / G-1/O-60/R-3/R-3
    Latest Model:XO-60
    Last Military Serial:42-13610 USAAF
    Construction Number:118
    Compressed ID:Kellett XO-60 sn 42-13610 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, Virginia

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    Dates

    Event

    February 1943

    Constructed as a XO-60.

    1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-13610.

    By October 1944

    Transferred to 4020th AAF Base Unit, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.

    13 October 1944

    Crashed.
    Landing accident at Bowman Field, KY, due to mechanical failure; pilot Robert M. Edholm.

    From 1944 to 1945

    Repaired.

    26 July 1945

    Assigned to U. S. Aircraft Section, Air Materiel Command, Freeman AAF, Seymour, IN for storage.
    Set aside for proposed USAAF aviation museum.

    9 May 1946

    Assigned to 803rd Special Depot, Orchard Place Airport, Park Ridge, IL for storage.

    To Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Park Ridge, IL.
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    To Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Paul Garber Facility, Silver Hill, MD.
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    Circa 1980

    To Smithsonian-National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC.
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    10 June 1991


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the National Air and Space Museum on the Mall in Washington, DC

    By 1997

    Based at Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Paul Garber Facility, Silver Hill, MD.
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    25 May 2001


    Photographer: Norm Jukes
    Notes: Photographed at Air Power Park, Hampton, VA.

    By December 2004

    To Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, VA.
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    16 September 2011


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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