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    Airframe Family: Cessna 170 / 305 / L-19 / O-1 / OE / 325 / SIAI-Marchetti SM.1019
    Latest Model:O-1E Bird Dog
    Last Military Serial:56-2534 US
    Construction Number:23656
    Last Civil Registration:N62534
    Compressed ID:Cessna O-1E sn 56-2534 US cn 23656...
    Latest Owner or Location:William Troy Cobb Trustee, Fredericksburg, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1956

    Constructed as a L-19E-CE by Cessna at Wichita, Kansas, USA.

    Circa 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 56-2534.

    1956

    Transferred to Fort Riley, KS.

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as O-1E.

    Operated out of Alaska as a float plane.

    24 February 1999

    To unknown owner with c/r N6233 {2}.

    18 May 1999

    To Leland B. Mitchell DBA, Colorado Springs, CO with new c/r N62534.

    4 February 2004

    To William Troy Cobb Trustee, Newport Beach, CA keeping c/r N62534.

    Restored.
    Painted and marked as an aircraft with the 19th Tactical Air Support Squadron based at the Bien Hoa Air Base near Saigon.

    15 May 2009


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Planes of Fame Air Show in Chino, CA.

    24 July 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Keokuk, IA

    24 July 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Keokuk, IA

    26 April 2016

    To William Troy Cobb Trustee, Fredericksburg, TX keeping c/r N62534.
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
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