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    Airframe Family: Boeing B727 / C-22
    Latest Model:727-22
    Construction Number:18296
    Last Civil Registration:N7004U
    Compressed ID:Boeing 727-22 cn 18296 cr N7004U
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    1963

    Constructed as a 727-22.
    This was the first 727 delivered by Boeing.

    From 29 October 1963 to Circa October 1991

    To United Airlines with new c/r N7004U.

    26 March 1964

    Certificate of airworthiness for N7004U (727-22, 18296) issued.

    4 December 1991

    To Smithsonian-National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC.
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    2 April 1992

    To National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC keeping c/r N7004U.

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Celebrity Row, Davis-Monthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number LD001.

    22 August 2003


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: AMARC Tucson, AZ.

    22 August 2003


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: AMARC Tucson, AZ.

    February 2011

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    21 March 2017

    Civil registration, N7004U, cancelled.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    MASDC II, AMARC, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 1982-1987 by Fryer and Swann
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Bourlier
    Richard Talley
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