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    Airframe Family: Travel Air 2000 / 3000 / 4000 / 6000 Travel Air / CW-12 / CW-14
    Latest Model:B-4000
    Construction Number:1000
    Last Civil Registration:N8716
    Compressed ID:Travel Air B-4000 cn 1000 cr N8716
    Latest Owner or Location:William L. Hart, East Saint Louis, IL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-4000.
    TRAVEL AIR B-4000 1000

    To unknown owner with c/r NX869.

    To Woolaroc Ranch, Museum and Wildlife Preserve, Bartlesville, OK.
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    Circa 1928


    Photographer: https://www.woolaroc.org/pages/museum-and-art
    Notes: Winner of the 1927 Dole Air Race -winning the prize of US$25,000 for the first fixed-wing aircraft to fly the 3,870 kilometers (2,400 mi) from Oakland, California to Honolulu, Hawaii. Aircraft and pilot Art Goebel

    10 November 1941

    To William L. Hart, East Saint Louis, IL with new c/r N8716.

    10 August 1948

    Civil registration, N8716, cancelled.
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