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    Airframe Family: Schweizer SGS / TG / LNS
    Latest Model:TG-3A
    Last Military Serial:42-52988 USAAF
    Construction Number:68
    Last Civil Registration:N61665
    Compressed ID:Schweizer TG-3A sn 42-52988 USAAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TG-3A.

    27 January 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-52988.

    27 January 1943

    Transferred to AAF Western Flying Training Command, Glider Training Squadron, Fort Sumner AAF, NM.

    11 May 1943

    Transferred to Glider Replacement Training Pool/Roswell Army Flying School, (AAFWFTC), Roswell AAF, NM.

    September 1944

    Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cimarron Field, Oklahoma City, OK.

    15 September 1944

    To unknown owner.
    Acquired from RFC.

    12 October 1964

    To David Williams, Corapolis, PA with new c/r N61665.

    30 June 1970

    Civil registration, N61665, cancelled.

    To Henry A. Shevchuk.
    Donated the plane to the USAFM.

    Circa 1980

    Restored.
    Restored by the Spartan School of Aeronautics, Tulsa, OK.

    December 1980

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    5 June 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    December 2022

    Offered for sale by the NMUSAF.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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