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    Airframe Family: Cessna 310 / 320 / L-27/U-3 Blue Canoe
    Latest Model:U-3A Blue Canoe
    Last Military Serial:58-2138 US
    Construction Number:38112
    Last Civil Registration:N222FB
    Compressed ID:Cessna U-3A sn 58-2138 US cn 38112...
    Latest Owner or Location:American Airpower Museum, Republic Airport, East Farmingdale, Long Island, New York

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    Dates

    Event

    1958

    Constructed as an U-3A.

    Circa 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 58-2138.

    To unknown owner with c/r N222FB.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Westbury, NY.

    Based at American Airpower Museum, Republic Airport, East Farmingdale, Long Island, NY.
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    10 October 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This Blue Canoe ex 58-2138 was seen at El Paso in October 1978

    24 July 1985

    To unknown owner with c/r N222FB.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Westbury, NY.

    10 August 2012

    Civil registration, N222FB, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Westbury, NY.

    28 June 2015


    Photographer: Chris Wood
    Notes: Seen at Republic
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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