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    Airframe Family: Morane Saulnier MS-730 Alcyon
    Latest Model:MS-733 Alcyon
    Last Military Serial:40 ALA
    Construction Number:040
    Last Civil Registration:N5440
    Compressed ID:Morane Saulnier MS-733 sn 40 ALA cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Adventure Air Llc, Bear, DE

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    Dates

    Event

    1954

    Constructed as a MS-733.

    1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armee de l Air with s/n 40.

    1971

    To Grady L. Helms, York, SC with new c/r N5440.

    February 1975

    To Edna Amundson, Junction City, OR keeping c/r N5440.

    6 October 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: MS.733 Alcyon, ex French Air Force serial 55-40, seen at the Confederate Air Force Airshow of 1978 at Harlingen, Texas.

    31 July 1979


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1979 photo at Oshkosh WI - of a Morane Saulnier MS.733 Alcyon

    September 1986


    Photographer: Mark Kennedy
    Notes: MS-733 Alcyon N5440 at Wings Over Houston Airshow, Ellington Field, Houston, Tx. Sept 1986.

    2 October 1987

    To Ray Aerial Spraying Inc, Hendrick IA keeping c/r N5440.

    24 August 1997


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Iowa City, IA

    24 August 1997


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Iowa City, IA

    2 December 2011

    To Lafayette Escadrille Llc, Zimmerman, MN keeping c/r N5440.

    17 January 2018

    To Voltige Llc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N5440.

    11 August 2020

    To Adventure Air Llc, Bear, DE keeping c/r N5440.
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
    Peter Nicholson
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