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    Airframe Family: Martin 123/139 / B-10/12/13/14 / A-15 / O-45
    Latest Model:139WAA
    Last Military Serial:0080 ARA
    Compressed ID:Martin 139WAA sn 0080 ARA
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1938

    Constructed as a 139WAA.

    From 1938 to Circa 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armada de la Republica Argentina with s/n 0080.

    Used by Argentine Air Force for training ground crews as late as the 1960s.

    To Jorge Newberry National School of Technical Education, No. 1, in Buenos Aires.
    Used as a ground-training tool for Argentine engineering students.

    21 August 1970

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    Incomplete airframe donated to the museum by the Government of Argentina.
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    From 1973 to 1976

    Restored.
    Restored by 96th Maintenance Squadron (Mobile), USAF Reserve, Kelly AFB, TX.

    Markings Applied: ARMY, 146
    These are false markings, as the aircraft is in the markings of a B-10 from 1934, though this is a 139WA export version sold to the Argentine Navy.

    1976

    Transported by air.
    Transported from Kelly AFB, TX inside C-5A.

    4 December 2006


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    6 May 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    14 May 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield


    Photographer: National Museum of the USAF
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Wikipedia
    Individual Contributors
     Jack campbell
    Glenn Chatfield
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