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    Airframe Family: Aero L-39 Albatros
    Latest Model:L-39ZA Albatros
    Last Military Serial:106 FARo
    Construction Number:232406
    Last Civil Registration:N135EM
    Compressed ID:Aero L-39ZA sn 106 FARo cn 232406 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Polaris Ghost Squadron, Bozeman, MT

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-39ZA.

    1983

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fortele Aeriene Romane with s/n 106.

    15 March 2002

    To Warbird Airshows Llc, Reno, NV with new c/r N396ZA.

    16 September 2008

    To JDI Holdings Llc, Washington, NJ keeping c/r N396ZA.

    July 2010


    Photographer: Hugh Dodson
    Notes: At Oshkosh in 2010

    27 July 2010


    Photographer: Todd Royer

    11 March 2011


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Tico Warbird Airshow, Titusville FL

    26 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Oshkosh

    7 March 2012

    To JDI Holdings Llc, Allentown, PA with new c/r N135EM.
    Operated by the Black Diamond Jet Team.

    12 April 2013


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: at Sun and Fun Lakeland

    23 January 2014

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX135EM (L-39ZA, 232406) issued.

    14 August 2017

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX135EM (L-39ZA, 232406) issued.

    26 May 2023

    To JDI Holdings Llc, Allentown, PA keeping c/r N135EM.

    27 July 2023


    Photographer: David Rickwood
    Notes: Seen arriving during EAA2023 at Oshkosh

    30 July 2023


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: At Oshkosh, WI.

    Operated by Polaris Ghost Squadron, Bozeman, MT.
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