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    Airframe Family: Naval Aircraft Factory N3N
    Latest Model:N3N-3
    Last Military Serial:04445 USN
    Last Civil Registration:G-CFXT
    Compressed ID:Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 sn 044...
    Latest Owner or Location:Eshott Airfield

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a N3N-3.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 04445.

    To unknown owner with c/r N45299.

    21 June 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N45299 (N3N-3, 4445) issued.

    13 November 1986

    To unknown owner with c/r N45299.

    14 March 1995

    To James P. Blaetz, Mesa, AZ keeping c/r N45299.

    31 March 2009

    Civil registration, N45299, cancelled.
    Exported to United Kingdom.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-CFXT.

    From 16 April 2009 to 29 July 2010

    To Ronald Henry Cooper keeping c/r G-CFXT.

    29 July 2010

    To Ronald Henry Cooper, Tallybont, Wickenby, Lincoln, Jennifer Ann Cooper, Tallybont, Wickenby, Lincoln keeping c/r G-CFXT.

    To Wickenby, Lincolnshire/Lincs, England.
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    23 July 2014


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-S G-CFXT in the Skunk Works at Wickenby

    Markings Applied: 4445, 228

    October 2023

    Base of operations changed.
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