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    Airframe Family: Aero L-39
    Latest Model:L-39C Albatros
    Construction Number:332505
    Last Civil Registration:N139RT
    Compressed ID:Aero L-39C cn 332505 cr N139RT
    Latest Owner or Location:Standiford Field, Louisville, Kentucky

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-39C.

    1983

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily.

    23 October 1999

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX139RT (L-39 ALBATROS, 332505) issued.

    17 November 1999

    To Float Dancer Inc, Wilmington, DE with new c/r N43332.

    17 November 1999

    To Float Dancer Inc, Wilmington, DE with new c/r N139RT.

    28 March 2001

    To Float Dancer Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N139RT.

    Based at Standiford Field, Louisville, KY.
    View the Location Dossier

    27 March 2008

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX139RT (L-39 ALBATROS, 332505) issued.

    29 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2012 Sun N Fun at Lakeland, Florida

    1 April 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Visitor to 2012 Sun N Fun at Lakeland, Florida

    30 March 2013


    Photographer: Kenneth Smith
    Notes: airplane taking off from Bowman Field in Louisville

    12 September 2015

    Destroyed in a crash.
    The aircraft impacted wooded terrain while performing an aerial maneuver during the Wings Over Big South Fork at Scott Municipal Airport (KSCX), Oneida, Tennessee. The aircraft was destroyed and the sole pilot onboard received fatal injuries.(https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=179512).

    12 September 2015

    Crashed.
    There was one fatality. The accident occurred at the Scott Municipal Airport (SCX) Oneida, TN, United States while taking off. The airframe was destroyed. The pilot of the single-engine, high-performance, jet airplane was scheduled to be the final performer at an air show. Several witnesses who observed the airplane take off reported that the airplane seemed slow during climbout...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    20 February 2019

    Civil registration, N139RT, cancelled.
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    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Transportation Safety Board
    Individual Contributors
     Thorsten Ruchel
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