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    Airframe Family: Avro 504
    Latest Model:504K
    Last Military Serial:B3182 RFC
    Construction Number:B3182
    Last Civil Registration:N3282C
    Compressed ID:Avro 504K sn B3182 RFC cn B3182 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fantasy of Flight / Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    1916

    Constructed as a 504K.
    Built by A.V.Roe at their Hamble factory in the UK

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Flying Corps with s/n B3182.

    From 1921 to 1925

    It was imported into the Mexican Central Highlands and used as a trainer and hack.

    Circa 1969

    It was located by an airline pilot and brought back to the United States for restoration in the late 1960s.

    From 1969 to 1972

    Restored.
    The plane was restored by Dean Wilson in Boise, Iowa over a three year period.

    3 August 1972

    First post-restoration Flight.
    At Boise, Iowa by Dean Wilson.

    To J. L. Terteling.

    1988

    To Kermit Weeks, 14710 SW, 128th Saint. Miami, FL. 33186.
    Bought at Auction in 1988.

    25 March 1989


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Kendall Tamiami

    To Kermit Weeks with new c/r N3282C.

    To Fantasy of Flight/Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL.
    Only the fuselage survives here.
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