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    Airframe Family: Grumman G-111/SA-16/HU-16/UF Albatross
    Latest Model:UF-1G Albatross
    Last Military Serial:1311 USCG
    Construction Number:G-407
    Last Civil Registration:N7973B
    Compressed ID:Grumman UF-1G sn 1311 USCG cn G-407...
    Latest Owner or Location:FFF Transportation Llc, Las Vegas, NV

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UF-1G.

    1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Coast Guard with s/n 1311.

    30 July 2004

    To Paga Holdings Llc, Wilmington, DE with new c/r N7973B.

    28 January 2005

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR7973B (HU-16, 1311) issued.

    To Charles M. Schultz Sonoma County Airport, Santa Rosa, CA.
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    28 March 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Sonoma County Airport, Santa Rosa, CA.

    28 March 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Sonoma County Airport, Santa Rosa, CA.

    21 July 2014

    To FFF Transportation Llc, Las Vegas, NV keeping c/r N7973B.

    13 September 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX7973B (HU-16, 1311) issued.

    2 May 2017


    Photographer: Damien Carrick
    Notes: Looking unserviceable and unloved on the ramp at Boulder City. Lots of oil on RHS and on the ground.

    31 October 2020

    Civil registration, N7973B, cancelled.
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