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    Airframe Family: Aero L-39 Albatros
    Latest Model:L-39C Albatros
    Last Military Serial:236 white KyADF
    Construction Number:931526
    Last Civil Registration:N239PW
    Compressed ID:Aero L-39C sn 236 white KyADF cn 93...
    Latest Owner or Location:Warbird Heritage Foundation Inc, Waukegan, IL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-39C.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Kyrgyzstan Air and Air Defense Force with s/n 236 white.

    14 February 2000

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX239PW (L-39, 931526) issued.

    July 2002


    Photographer: Norm Jukes
    Notes: Photographed at Oshkosh, WI.

    9 March 2005

    To Warbird Heritage Foundation Inc, Lake Forest, IL with new c/r N239PW.

    Based at Warbird Heritage Foundation, Waukegan Regional Airport, Waukegan, IL.
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    27 July 2009


    Photographer: Todd Royer

    12 May 2011

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX239PW (L-39, 931526) issued.

    1 September 2012


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

    1 September 2012


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

    4 April 2014


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Sun-N-Fun, Lakeland, FL.

    11 July 2016

    To Warbird Heritage Foundation Inc, Waukegan, IL keeping c/r N239PW.

    28 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2017 EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh
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