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    Airframe Family: Cessna 170 / 305 / L-19 / O-1 / OE / 325 / SIAI-Marchetti SM.1019
    Latest Model:CO-119
    Last Military Serial:119720 CAF
    Construction Number:24604
    Compressed ID:Cessna CO-119 sn 119720 CAF cn 2460...
    Latest Owner or Location:Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum, Bedford, Halifax, Nova Scotia

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    Dates

    Event

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

    21 May 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 56-4037.

    6 July 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 16720.
    Brought on strength for use by the Canadian Army.

    20 April 1969

    Damaged.
    Suffered a Category B accident.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Canadian Armed Forces with s/n 119720 as a CO-119.
    Reserialled despite not having been returned to service.

    Transferred to Crown Assets Disposal Corporation (CADC).
    To CADC for disposal.

    To Seneca Flight College.
    Acquired for use as a training aid for the Aircraft Mechanics Engineers (AME) program.

    To Moncton Flight College.
    Used as a training aid in the AME program.

    2000

    Loaned to Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum, Bedford, Halifax, NS.
    Allocated to the museum for preservation.
    View the Location Dossier

    January 2001

    Transported by ground.
    Moved to the museum in Bedford, NS.

    Restoration started.
    Planned to finish the airframe in colours it would have worn while in service at CFB Gagetown, NB.

    24 July 2009


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Partly in pure metal while under reconstruction at the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    11 January 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    11 January 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
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