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    Airframe Family: Fouga CM-170 / CM-175
    Latest Model:CM-170R Magister
    Last Military Serial:FM-35 FiAF
    Construction Number:FM-35
    Last Civil Registration:N405DM
    Compressed ID:Fouga CM-170R sn FM-35 FiAF cn FM-3...
    Latest Owner or Location:Commemorative Air Force - Rio Grande Valley Wing, Brownsville / South Padre Is. International Airport, Brownsville, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    1962

    Constructed as a CM-170R.
    Built by Valmet, Finland

    1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Finnish Air Force with s/n FM-35.

    21 April 1987

    Certificate of airworthiness for N405DM (CM 170R MAGISTER, FM-35) issued.

    21 April 1987

    To Dean Martin/Warplanes Inc, Burlington, VT with new c/r N405DM.

    By October 1987

    To Dario Taquechel, Hilton Head Island, SC keeping c/r N405DM.

    February 1993

    To Metro Rental Properties, Atlanta, GA keeping c/r N405DM.

    28 January 1997

    To Leasing Associates Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N405DM.

    Based at Commemorative Air Force-Rio Grande Valley Wing, Brownsville/South Padre Is. International Airport, Brownsville, TX.
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    17 December 2006


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: At Buchanan Field Airport

    24 October 2012


    Photographer: Jean Louis Lafont
    Notes: I have more pictures of this plane, including inside cockpit.

    24 October 2012


    Photographer: Jean Louis Lafont

    24 October 2012


    Photographer: Jean Louis Lafont
    Notes: POTEZ FOUGA license built in Finland by VALMET FM 35 commissioned 3/3/62

    November 2012

    Jean Louis Lafort reports: November 2012, N405DM still in Brownsville but dismantled and stored in open area, not protected, preservation compromised.

    22 December 2014

    Civil registration, N405DM, cancelled.
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Jean Louis Lafont
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