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    Airframe Family: Cessna 318 / 405 / T-37 Tweet / A-37 Dragonfly
    Latest Model:GT-37B Tweet
    Last Military Serial:56-3480 USAF
    Construction Number:40052
    Last Civil Registration:N120DB
    Compressed ID:Cessna GT-37B sn 56-3480 USAF cn 40...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Acres Museum, Cartersville, Georgia

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    Event

    Constructed as a T-37A.
    Cessna-brady T-37B 563480C

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-3480.

    Converted to a T-37B-CE by Cessna at Wichita, Kansas, USA.

    Converted to a GT-37B.

    To David F. Brady, Cartersville, GA with new c/r N120DB.
    Operated with markings: Georgia Tweet

    By 1990

    Based at Air Acres Museum, Cartersville, GA.
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    27 May 1990

    At Air Acres Museum.
    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    1991


    Photographer: Chris Redford
    Notes: At the TICO Airshow at Titusville, Florida

    7 June 1991

    Crashed.
    There were two fatalities. The accident occurred at Chickamauga, GA, United States while maneuvering. The airframe was destroyed. A T-37 and an A-26 collided in flight at 9500 feet MSL while practicing an acrobatic maneuver. The maneuver required the T-37 to pass under the right wing of the A-26 and terminate the maneuver with a roll. According to the A-26 pilot, the first fly-by was completed outboard the right wing without incident...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    16 December 1993

    Civil registration, N120DB, cancelled.


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