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    Airframe Family: Spartan 7W Executive / 8W Zeus / 12W Executive
    Latest Model:UC-71-SP
    Last Military Serial:42-57515 USAAF
    Construction Number:15
    Last Civil Registration:N17616
    Compressed ID:Spartan UC-71-SP sn 42-57515 USAAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Qualitair Llc Trustee, Micheistadt

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    Dates

    Event

    1938

    Constructed as a 7W.

    1938

    To unknown owner with c/r NC17616.

    1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-57515 as a UC-71-SP.
    Used for staff transport in USA.

    1945

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Army Air Force.

    1945

    To unknown owner with c/r NC17616.

    11 July 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N836 (7W, 15) issued.

    29 March 1963

    To Norman L. Kleman, Hampshire, IL with new c/r N836.

    Circa 1975


    Photographer: Colonel Michael B. Strok
    Notes: Taken in the mid 1970s in the Annapolis MD area. It could be at Lee Airport in Annapolis

    27 April 2005

    To Redman Company Llc, Nye, MT with new c/r N17616.

    28 July 2014


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Oshkosh

    22 July 2016


    Photographer: Mark Pasqualino
    Notes: At Oshkosh

    16 November 2016

    To Redman Company Llc, Nye, MT keeping c/r N17616.

    20 March 2017

    To Aircraft Guaranty Corp Trustee, Onalaska, TX keeping c/r N17616.

    29 October 2019

    To Aircraft Guaranty Corp Trustee, Oklahoma City, OK keeping c/r N17616.

    2 January 2020

    To Qualitair Llc Trustee, Micheistadt keeping c/r N17616.

    30 July 2020

    Civil registration, N17616, cancelled.
    Exported to Russian Federation.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     U.S. Military Aircraft Designations and Serials 1909 to 1979 by John M. Andrade
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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