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    Airframe Family: Cessna 170 / 305 / L-19 / O-1 / OE / 325 / SIAI-Marchetti SM.1019
    Latest Model:305C
    Last Military Serial:56-2620 USAF
    Construction Number:23757
    Last Civil Registration:N305AF
    Compressed ID:Cessna 305C sn 56-2620 USAF cn 2375...
    Latest Owner or Location:James K. Mulvihill, Kerrville, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-19E.

    Circa 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 56-2620.

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as O-1E.

    24 June 1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-2620.

    June 1965

    Transferred to 19th Tactical Air Support Squadron (TASS), 34th Tactical Group, Bien Hoa, Dong Nai Province, South Vietnam.

    8 July 1965

    Transferred to 6251st Tactical Fighter Wing, South Vietnam.

    1 August 1965

    Transferred to 6250th Tactical Air Support Group (TASG), Provisional, Bien Hoa, South Vietnam.

    8 November 1965

    Transferred to 505th Tactical Control Group (TCG), Bien Hoa.

    July 1966

    Transferred to 22nd TASS, 505th TCG, Binh Thuy, Can Tho Province.

    1 September 1966

    Transferred to 6250th TASG, Provisional, South Vietnam.

    15 September 1966

    Transferred to 6253rd TASG, Provisional, Binh Thuy, South Vietnam.

    8 December 1966

    Transferred to 504th TASG, Binh Thuy, South Vietnam.

    January 1970

    Transferred to 504th TASG, Bien Hoa, Dong Nai Province, South Vietnam.

    4 June 1970

    Destroyed.
    Combat Loss, South Vietnam.

    11 June 1970

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Air Force.

    1999

    Remanufactured as a 305C.
    New construction number, 305AF, assigned to the airframe.
    Cessna/Inland Valley Avia 305C, assembled from parts obtained from Civil Air Patrol.

    6 April 1999

    To James K. Mulvihill, Kerrville, TX with new c/r N305AF.

    22 June 1999

    Certificate of airworthiness for N305AF (305 C, 305AF) issued.

    13 September 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Keokuk, IA

    13 September 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Keokuk, IA
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