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    Airframe Family: Naval Aircraft Factory N3N
    Latest Model:N3N-3
    Last Military Serial:04497 USN
    Construction Number:4497
    Last Civil Registration:N45084
    Compressed ID:Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 sn 044...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a N3N-3.

    1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 04497.

    Circa 1947

    To C. T. Jensen, Sacramento with new c/r N45084.


    Photographer: William T Larkins

    30 April 1959

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR45084 (N3N-3, 4497) issued.

    Operated as fire service #E23.

    10 June 1981

    To Dale P. Newton, Talent, OR keeping c/r N45084.

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
    Stored in a container here.
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    12 November 2012


    Photographer: Chris Kennedy
    Notes: This was recently installed in Hangar 4. It is modified as a sprayer, with a tank in the front cockpit.

    29 November 2012

    Civil registration, N45084, cancelled.

    31 March 2017


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In the Pima museum.


    Photographer: Larry Johnson Collection
    Notes: From Collect-Air Photos.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Pima Air and Space Museum
    Individual Contributors
     Johnny Comstedt
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