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    Airframe Family: Cessna 172 Skyhawk / T-41 Mescalero
    Latest Model:F172P Skyhawk
    Construction Number:F172-02087
    Last Civil Registration:D-ECJB
    Compressed ID:Reims F172P cn F172-02087 cr D-ECJB...
    Latest Owner or Location:Luftwaffen Museum, ex RAF Gatow, Berlin, Berlin

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    Dates

    Event

    1981

    Constructed as a F172P by Reims at France.

    April 1981

    To unknown owner with c/r D-ECJB.

    28 May 1987

    Mathias Rust managed to land this plane on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge right next to the Red Square in Moscow after he flew unchallenged all the way from Helsinki, Finland.

    Circa 2008

    Placed on display with Deutsches Technikmuseum (Berlin Technology Museum), Berlin, Berlin.
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    26 May 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Berlin-Kreuzberg, Brandenburg, Germany

    8 September 2018


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Deutsche Technikmuseum in Berlin, Germany.

    To Luftwaffen Museum, ex RAF Gatow, Berlin, Berlin.
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    12 June 2022


    Photographer: Heino Rhoden
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    Thorsten Ruchel
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