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    Airframe Family: Cessna 170 / 305 / L-19 / O-1 / OE / 325 / SIAI-Marchetti SM.1019
    Latest Model:TO-1D Bird Dog
    Last Military Serial:55-4728 US
    Construction Number:23568
    Last Civil Registration:N727ER
    Compressed ID:Cessna TO-1D sn 55-4728 US cn 23568...
    Latest Owner or Location:Banjo Boy Llc, Bozeman, MT

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    Dates

    Event

    1955

    Constructed as a TL-19D.
    Accepted by the USAF for transfer to the Army

    1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 55-4728.

    1955

    Transferred to Military Assistance Program.

    Circa 1955

    Transferred to the French Government for use in Indochina. Shipped dismantled to Bien Hoa, Dong Nai Province, South Vietnam. Assembled by 1er Section de la Reparation des Aviation LegAre dObservation dArtillerie.

    Circa 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armee de l Air with s/n 23568.

    Returned to US Government.

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as TO-1D.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 55-4728.

    By 4 September 1973

    To unknown owner with c/r N26213 (305B, 23568).
    Since still on US Army rolls, this is probably a flying club or the Civil Air Patrol.

    4 September 1973

    Certificate of airworthiness for N26213 (305B, 23568) issued.

    15 August 1979

    Last US Army report.

    By 22 July 1993

    To unknown owner with c/r N26213.

    22 July 1993

    Crashed.
    The accident occurred at the Elton Hensley Memorial Airport (FTT) Fulton, MO, United States while landing. The damage was substantial. The pilot and his passenger were en route from boulder city, Nevada, to oskosh, Wisconsin. They had departed boulder city at 0545 (PDT). On this leg of the flight they had departed newton, Kansas, at 1848 (cdt). The pilot landed at fulton, Missouri, at 2055 (cdt)...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    29 October 1999

    To Clifford S. Turner, Sisters, OR keeping c/r N26213.

    10 July 2002

    To Elwyn V. Roosevelt, Jacksonville, AL with new c/r N727ER.

    1 January 2004

    Certificate of airworthiness for N727ER (305B, 23568) issued.

    14 April 2004


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Sun-n-Fun, Lakeland FL

    23 July 2005


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Keokuk, IA

    5 November 2008

    To Stewart Creston, Bozeman, MT keeping c/r N727ER.

    15 March 2013

    To unknown owner with c/r N727ER.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Bozeman, MT.

    8 May 2013

    To Banjo Boy Llc, Bozeman, MT keeping c/r N727ER.
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