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    Airframe Family: Naval Aircraft Factory N3N
    Latest Model:N3N-3
    Last Military Serial:1994 USN
    Construction Number:1994
    Last Civil Registration:N9316Z
    Compressed ID:Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 sn 199...
    Latest Owner or Location:Buzzard Air Service Llc, Carleton, MI

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    Dates

    Event

    1941

    Constructed as a N3N-3.

    Circa 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 1994.

    16 October 1970

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9316Z (N3N-3, 1994) issued.

    By 1975

    To unknown owner with c/r N9316Z.

    Circa 1975


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Galesburg Municipal

    26 November 1976

    To James O. Battern, Cordova, IL keeping c/r N9316Z.

    6 September 2001

    To Michael K. Hargrave, Gladwin, MI keeping c/r N9316Z.

    To Gladwin Zettel Memorial Airport (GDW), Gladwin, MI.
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    Markings Applied: 52

    26 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Oshkosh

    7 April 2014

    To Buzzard Air Service Llc, Belleville, MI keeping c/r N9316Z.

    1 January 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9316Z (N3N-3, 1994) issued.

    Circa 1 January 2016

    To Michael K. Hargrave, Gladwin, MI keeping c/r N9316Z.

    28 November 2016

    To Buzzard Air Service Llc, Belleville, MI keeping c/r N9316Z.

    30 November 2018

    To Buzzard Air Service Llc, Carleton, MI keeping c/r N9316Z.
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     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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     Terry Fletcher
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