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    Airframe Family: Societe Pour lAviation et ses Derives (SPAD) S-VII
    Latest Model:S-VII (replica)
    Construction Number:C-7
    Last Civil Registration:N9104A
    Compressed ID:Societe Pour lAviation et ses Deriv...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, Michigan

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    Dates

    Event

    1978

    Constructed as a S-VII (replica).
    Constructed by Carl Swanson and Gerald Thornhill. Hampshire, IL.

    1978

    To Carl Swanson and Gerald Thornhill. Hampshire, IL with new c/r N9104A.
    Operated with markings: 4

    9 March 1981

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX9104A (SPAD VII, C-7) issued.

    6 April 1988

    To Byrne Aviation Inc, Bloomfield Hills, MI keeping c/r N9104A.

    By September 1999

    Loaned to Experimental Aircraft Association Museum, Oshkosh, WI.

    17 September 1999


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the EAA Museum, Oshkosh, WI

    By April 2000

    Based at Air Zoo, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
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    10 March 2017

    Civil registration, N9104A, cancelled.

    To Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
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    31 July 2022


    Photographer: Patrick Genechten
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