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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-4A Grasshopper
    Last Military Serial:42-36790 USAAF
    Construction Number:8914
    Last Civil Registration:N5777N
    Compressed ID:Piper L-4A sn 42-36790 USAAF cn 891...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an O-59A by Piper.

    1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-36790.

    Transferred to 370th Air Base Squadron, South Plains AFS, TX.

    April 1942

    Redesignated as L-4A.

    2 December 1942

    Involved in an incident.
    Taxi accident at South Plains AFS, TX.

    23 October 1968

    To unknown owner with c/r N5777N (L-4A, 8914).

    18 November 1994

    To Emerson C. Stewart, Waynesville, OH keeping c/r N5777N.

    By April 1995

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Markings Applied: 236389
    Marked to represent an L-4 that flew in support of the Allied invasion of North Africa in November 1942.

    9 May 1995

    Civil registration, N5777N, cancelled.

    17 May 2018


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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    unreviewed imported data.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Aviation Archaeology
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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