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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
    Latest Model:DH-82B Queen Bee
    Last Military Serial:V4760 RAF
    Construction Number:5447
    Last Civil Registration:N2726A
    Compressed ID:de Havilland DH-82B sn V4760 RAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington

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    Dates

    Event

    1940

    Constructed as a DH-82B.

    20 February 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n V4760.

    14 December 1941

    Transported by ship.
    V4760 was succesfully delivered - to the Army Air Corps Technical Data Branch at Wright Field,Dayton, Ohio for evaluation.

    1944

    To National Air and Space Museum/Army Air Force Training Command.

    April 1944

    To Hershey Industrial School, Hershey, PA.
    Used as a training aid.

    19 May 1954

    To John L. Swann of Lynchburg, VA with new c/r N2726A.

    17 January 1955

    To General Aviation Inc, of Danville, VA keeping c/r N2726A.

    10 November 1955

    To Leyland Hayward Productions Inc-Billy Wilder Productions Inc of Burbank, CA keeping c/r N2726A.

    1957

    Markings Applied: NC726A
    The aircraft was painted in the black and silver colours of Pathe News and flown in the 1957 film Spirit of St. Louis.

    1958


    Photographer: http://www.n5490.org/V4760/History/History.html

    To Paul Mantz of Tallmantz Aviation, CA keeping c/r N2726A.

    1965

    To Elmer A. Novak keeping c/r N2726A.

    Stored at the Minnesota Aircraft Museum, Flying Cloud Airport, Minnesota.

    17 September 1977

    To Gene Kunde of Saint. Paul, MN keeping c/r N2726A.

    27 February 2002

    To Fred Bahr, of Issaquah, Washington State keeping c/r N2726A.

    18 June 2002

    To Port Townsend Aero Museum, Port Townsend, WA.
    Fred Bahr donated the aircraft to the Port Townsend Aero Museum, Chimacum, Port Ludlow, WA.
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    Based at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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