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    Airframe Family: Grumman G-21/JRF/OA-9/OA-13 Goose
    Latest Model:JRF-5 Goose
    Last Military Serial:87736 USN
    Construction Number:B-130
    Last Civil Registration:N644R
    Compressed ID:Grumman JRF-5 sn 87736 USN cn B-130...
    Latest Owner or Location:Historic Aircraft Restoration Project, NAS Brooklyn, New York, New York

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a JRF-5.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 87736.

    23 March 1976

    To US Department of The Interior, Anchorage, AL with new c/r N644R.

    25 July 1990

    To US Department of The Interior, Anchorage, AL keeping c/r N644R.
    Last CR action date noted here.

    28 July 1998

    Civil registration, N644R, cancelled.

    Based at Historic Aircraft Restoration Project, NAS Brooklyn, New York, NY.
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    14 July 2009


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
    Notes: Grumman G-21A Goose (N644R - Bu87736) - The Historic Aircraft Restoration Project, Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, NY, restored this aircraft to taxy condition and painted her in the colors of the New York City Police, which still operates rescue flights from this site, though nowadays using helicopters
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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