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    Airframe Family: Cessna 120 / 140
    Latest Model:120
    Construction Number:09030
    Last Civil Registration:N89978
    Compressed ID:Cessna 120 cn 09030 cr N89978
    Latest Owner or Location:Keith Wilson, Los Lunas, NM

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    Dates

    Event

    1946

    Constructed as a 120.

    30 July 1955

    Certificate of airworthiness for N89978 (120, 9030) issued.

    1963

    To Sheridan Loyd, Greensburg, IN with new c/r N89978.

    1971

    To Wenner Wilson, Milwaukee, WI keeping c/r N89978.

    28 December 1979

    To Keith Wilson, Los Lunas, NM keeping c/r N89978.

    28 February 2014


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At the Cactus Fly-In at Casa Grande,Arizona

    4 March 2016


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: At 2016 Cactus Fly-In at Casa Grande, Arizona

    12 October 2021

    To Keith Wilson, Los Lunas, NM keeping c/r N89978.


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