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    Airframe Family: Northrop Model 8 / A-17 Nomad
    Latest Model:A-17A
    Last Military Serial:36-0207 USAAF
    Construction Number:234
    Compressed ID:Northrop A-17A sn 36-0207 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    1937

    Constructed as an A-17A.

    Circa 1937

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Corps with s/n 36-207.

    25 June 1937

    Transferred to 3rd Attack Group, Barksdale, LA.

    Circa 1939

    Transferred to Kelly Field, TX.

    April 1940

    Transferred to Bolling Field, Washington, DC.
    Served as support aircraft for Military Attaches to Honduras, Guatemala and Haiti.

    20 June 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 36-0207.

    1945

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Army Air Force.

    To United States Air Force Museum, Patterson Field (East Side), Dayton, OH.
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    October 1971

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Markings Applied: AC 71
    Finished as an aicraft of the 90th Attack Squadron, 3rd Attack Group in 1938.


    Photographer: National Museum of the USAF


    Photographer: National Museum of the USAF

    14 May 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    14 May 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    18 September 2023


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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