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    Airframe Family: Miles M3 Falcon
    Latest Model:M-3C Falcon Six
    Last Military Serial:30-117 USAAC
    Construction Number:231
    Last Civil Registration:EC-ACB {2}
    Compressed ID:Miles M-3C sn 30-117 USAAC cn 231 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fundacion Infante de Orleans, Cuatro Vientos Air Base, Madrid, Madrid

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a M-3C.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-ADLS (MILES M3C FALCON SIX, 231).

    Markings Applied: I-BELA
    Finished with a false civil registration.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Corps with s/n 30-117.
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    To unknown owner with c/r EC-CAO {2}.

    To Cetfa Compaa Espaola de Trabajos Fotogrametricos Aereos with new c/r EC-ACB {2}.

    From 1944 to 1959

    To Trabajos Fotogramtricos Areos keeping c/r EC-ACB {2}.

    Markings Applied: Ana Mary

    14 November 1950

    To Ramn Muoz Soler keeping c/r EC-ACB {2}.

    14 March 1951

    To Aero Club de Reus keeping c/r EC-ACB {2}.

    4 March 1953

    To Matias Borsot Ferragut keeping c/r EC-ACB {2}.

    18 March 1959

    Withdrawn from use.
    Zaragoza.

    23 February 1973

    To Manuel Buitrn Fernandez keeping c/r EC-ACB {2}.

    From September 1993 to 1997

    Restored.
    The work was carried out in the United Kingdom.

    Markings Applied: Virgen de Loreto

    To Fundacion Infante de Orleans, Cuatro Vientos Air Base, Madrid, Madrid.
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    2006


    Photographer: Andy West

    After 2007


    Photographer: Christian Amado
    Notes: Photo displayed with written permission of Christian Amado

    5 July 2012

    Damaged.
    Cuatro Vie.
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    Credits
     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
     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Fleet Air Arm Archive
    Spanish Register of Civil Aircraft Since 1920 by Jose Ramon Valero
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