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    This page documents a history of a specific aircraft. The details provided vary from aircraft to aircraft and are dependent on the research and amount of data uploaded to the Aerial Visuals database.

    Airframe Family: Taylorcraft A / J-2 / J-3 / J-4 / J-5 / L-4/O-59/C-83 Grasshopper / L-18 Super Cub / L-21 Super Grasshopper / PA-11/PA-18/PA-19
    Latest Model:L-14 Grasshopper
    Last Military Serial:45-55531 USAAF
    Construction Number:5-3007
    Last Civil Registration:EC-AAP
    Compressed ID:Piper L-14 sn 45-55531 USAAF cn 5-3...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fundacion Infante de Orleans, Cuatro Vientos Air Base, Madrid, Madrid

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-14 by Piper.

    Circa 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 45-55531.

    Circa 3 January 1946

    Certificate of airworthiness for NC41594 (L-14, 5-3007) issued.

    3 January 1946

    To Piper Aircraft Corp, Lock Haven, PA with new c/r N41594 {1}.

    12 April 1946

    Civil registration, N41594 {1}, cancelled.
    Exported to Cuba.

    1946

    To unknown owner with c/r CU-P18.

    To unknown owner with c/r CU-N18.

    To Jose Lpez de Carrizosa with new c/r EC-AAP.

    26 October 1949

    To Mara Victoria Puentedura Ojeda keeping c/r EC-AAP.

    6 August 1955

    To Manuel Lpez Manteola keeping c/r EC-AAP.

    25 January 1956

    To Antonio Figaredo Sela keeping c/r EC-AAP.

    To Aero Club de Oviedo keeping c/r EC-AAP.

    From 1957 to 1995

    Withdrawn from use.
    Len.

    19 January 1995

    To Jose Luis Olias Sanchez with new c/r EC-AAP.

    By 1996

    Restored.

    From 1996 to 2003

    Preserved at Burgos.

    2003

    To Fundacion Infante de Orleans, Cuatro Vientos Air Base, Madrid, Madrid.
    View the Location Dossier

    May 2003

    First flight.
    First post-restoration flight.


    Photographer: Christian Amado
    Notes: Photo at Madrid Museum - displayed with written permission of Christian Amado


    Photographer: Christian Amado
    Notes: Photo at Madrid Museum - displayed with written permission of Christian Amado

    2006


    Photographer: Andy West

    8 June 2019


    Photographer: Alan Wilson
    Notes: Back to Normandy meet at Sorel-Moussel, France
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Spanish Register of Civil Aircraft Since 1920 by Jose Ramon Valero
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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