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    Airframe Family: Helio Courier / L-28/U-10
    Latest Model:U-10A Super Courier
    Last Military Serial:62-3603 USAF
    Construction Number:532
    Last Civil Registration:N44953
    Compressed ID:Helio U-10A sn 62-3603 USAF cn 532...
    Latest Owner or Location:Michael A. Mower, Indian Trail, NC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an U-10A by Helio at Norwood, MA, USA.

    Circa 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 62-3603.

    30 May 1992

    To Detroit Institute of Aeronautics, Ypsilanti, MI with new c/r N44953.

    27 August 2004

    To Walter H. Fitzgerald, Harleysville, PA keeping c/r N44953.

    Based at Perkiomen Valley Airport (N10), Collegeville, PA.
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    8 November 2005

    Certificate of airworthiness for N44953 (USAF U-10B, 532) issued.

    27 July 2007


    Photographer: Mark Pasqualino
    Notes: At Oshkosh

    12 April 2012


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Shaw AFB Air Expo, Sumter County SC

    24 April 2012

    To Walter H. Fitzgerald, Harleysville, PA keeping c/r N44953.

    10 February 2021

    To Walter H. Fitzgerald, Harleysville, PA keeping c/r N44953.

    6 December 2022

    To Helen F. Gomes, San Diego, CA keeping c/r N44953.

    15 April 2023

    To Michael A. Mower, Indian Trail, NC keeping c/r N44953.
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