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    Airframe Family: Pilatus P-3 / PC-7
    Latest Model:P-3-05
    Last Military Serial:A-850 SwiAF
    Construction Number:488-37
    Last Civil Registration:N81581
    Compressed ID:Pilatus P-3-05 sn A-850 SwiAF cn 48...
    Latest Owner or Location:Plane@work Llc, Blaine, MN

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P-3-05.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n A-850.

    By August 1989

    Transferred to Primary Flying School, Magadino.

    25 August 1989


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Dubendorf Air Show

    25 August 1989


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Dubendorf Air Show

    4 May 1999

    To Ten Air Aircraft Corp, Minneapolis, MN with new c/r N81581.

    Based at Ten Air, Anoka County Airport, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN.
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    23 January 2017

    To unknown owner with c/r N81581.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Blaine, MN.

    23 April 2018

    To Plane@work Llc, Blaine, MN keeping c/r N81581.
    Credits
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
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