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    Airframe Family: Aero L-39 Albatros
    Latest Model:L-39C Albatros
    Last Military Serial:119 white KyADF
    Construction Number:432919
    Last Civil Registration:N139TB
    Compressed ID:Aero L-39C sn 119 white KyADF cn 43...
    Latest Owner or Location:Brig Air 2 Llc, Birmingham, MI

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-39C.

    1984

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily with s/n 119 white.

    1993

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Kyrgyzstan Air and Air Defense Force with s/n 119 white.

    27 June 1997

    To Timothy J. Brutsche, Battle Creek, MI with new c/r N139TB.

    8 October 1997

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX139TB issued.

    Based at W. K. Kellogg Regional Airport, Battle Creek, MI.
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    Markings Applied: 119 white

    6 April 2001


    Photographer: Norm Jukes
    Notes: Photographed at Sun n Fun at Lakeland, FL.

    7 June 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Quad Cities Air Show, Davenport, IA

    1 January 2008

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX139TB issued.

    31 January 2008

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX139TB issued.

    9 August 2008


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at Thunder Over Michigan at the Yankee Air Force Museum in Ypsilanti, MI.

    29 July 2010


    Photographer: Todd Royer
    Notes: EAA Airventure 2010

    24 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Oshkosh

    16 May 2014

    To unknown owner with c/r N139TB.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Battle Creek, MI.

    22 July 2014

    To Historic Warbird Foundation Llc, Battle Creek, MI keeping c/r N139TB.

    7 May 2023

    To unknown owner with c/r N139TB.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Battle Creek, MI.

    25 July 2023

    To Historic Warbird Foundation, Battle Creek, MI keeping c/r N139TB.

    16 January 2025

    To Brig Air 2 Llc, Birmingham, MI keeping c/r N139TB.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    World Air Forces Directory by Ian Carroll
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Thorsten Ruchel
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