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    Airframe Family: Bucker Bu-133 Jungmeister / CASA 1-133
    Latest Model:Bu-133C Jungmeister
    Last Military Serial:U-57 SwiAF
    Construction Number:4
    Last Civil Registration:N40BJ
    Compressed ID:Bucker Bu-133C sn U-57 SwiAF cn 4 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fantasy of Flight / Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Bu-133C.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with s/n U-5.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n U-57.

    To unknown owner with c/r HB-MIO.

    From 24 June 1970 to 28 April 1971

    To Neville Morgan Browning, Ongar, Essex with new c/r G-AYFO.

    28 April 1971

    Civil registration, G-AYFO, cancelled.
    Exported to the United States.

    27 January 1978


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Lakeland, Florida

    27 September 1979

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX40BJ (BU-133, 4) issued.

    27 June 1990

    To Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL with new c/r N40BJ.

    11 November 1990


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: at Kendall Tamiami

    Based at Fantasy of Flight/Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL.
    Operated with markings: YR-PAX
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    12 April 2005


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Fantasy of Flight, Polk City FL

    31 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Fantasy of Flight Museum, Polk City, Florida
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