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    Airframe Family: Beech 45/T-34 Mentor
    Latest Model:T-34C Turbo Mentor
    Last Military Serial:71-60944. US
    Construction Number:GL-130
    Last Civil Registration:N602NA
    Compressed ID:Beech T-34C sn 71-60944. US cn GL-1...
    Latest Owner or Location:NASA-Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-34C.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 160944.

    18 August 1993

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 4T197.

    12 March 1998

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 71-60944..

    Transferred to US Army Aviation Flight Test Directorate, Redstone Arsenal, AL.

    27 May 2002

    Involved in an incident.
    Extensively damaged when brakes failed after landing at Pope AFB, NC. Aircraft veered to rightoff taxiway and came to rest in drainage ditch.

    26 July 2018

    To NASA-Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH with new c/r N602NA.

    4 November 2020


    Photographer: Ed Jones
    Notes: A surprise catch of a new NASA T-34C Mentor, 160944, c/n GL-130, from the NASA Glenn Research Center on final for RWY 24R on 4 Nov 20201

    23 March 2021


    Photographer: George Mihalek
    Notes: At Cleveland Airport, Ohio
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