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    Airframe Family: Curtiss O-52 Owl
    Latest Model:O-52 Owl
    Last Military Serial:40-2804 USAAF
    Construction Number:14337
    Last Civil Registration:N50143
    Compressed ID:Curtiss O-52 sn 40-2804 USAAF cn 14...
    Latest Owner or Location:Walter Soplata Aviation Collection, Newbury, Cleveland, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an O-52.

    Circa 1940

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 40-2804.

    20 March 1942

    Crashed.
    Wrecked in an emergency forced landing four miles north of Cross, TX.

    To unknown owner with c/r N50143.

    May have been stored at a reform school.

    26 January 1948

    To Holmberg Aerial Survey Co, Washington, DC with new c/r N50143.

    4 February 1949

    Civil registration, N50143, cancelled.

    By 1969

    To Aviation Mechanic School, Columbus, OH.

    Circa August 1972


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver

    By 1975

    To Walter Soplata Aviation Collection, Newbury, Cleveland, OH.
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    1979


    Photographer: Roy F. Cochrun
    Notes: Source: http://www.royfc.com/albums/non_ru/museums/museum/ohio/soplata/index.html

    1984


    Photographer: Steve Tournay

    1985

    Last spotted in the Soplata collection.

    Restoration started.

    July 2003


    Photographer: Steve Tournay

    July 2020

    In 2020 nearing completion and first flight in Huntington, Indiana.

    13 July 2020


    Photographer: Dan Hanson
    Notes: Nearing first post restoration flight.
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