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    Airframe Family: Weaver Aircraft Company (WACO) E Series / C-72A/C
    Latest Model:SRE Aristocrat
    Last Military Serial:42-68341 USAAF
    Construction Number:5153
    Last Civil Registration:N1252W
    Compressed ID:Weaver Aircraft Company (WACO) SRE...
    Latest Owner or Location:Poplar Grove Airmotive Inc, Poplar Grove, IL

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    Dates

    Event

    1941

    Constructed as a HRE.

    1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-68341 as a UC-72C.
    Impressed into service during WWII.

    28 December 1944

    Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Love Field, TX.

    By 1963

    To Gordon Sherman, Raleigh, NC with new c/r N50857.

    By 1971

    To William G, Nutitng, Menlo Park, CA, keeping c/r N50857.

    By 1972

    Converted to a SRE.
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    10 February 1972

    Certificate of airworthiness for N1252W (SRE, 5153) issued.

    By 11 October 1982

    To unknown owner with c/r N1252W.

    11 October 1982

    Crashed.
    The accident occurred at the Redlands Municipal Airport (L-12) Redlands, CA, United States while landing. The damage was substantial. During landing into a sun low on the horizon the aircraft drifted left touched down slightly off the runway. The left gear caught a construction hole sheared off. The aircraft went out of control struck a rock pile shearing the right gear off...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    27 May 1989


    Photographer: Dick Hopkins
    Notes: Photographed at an airshow in Watsonville, CA.

    2 June 1989


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: Photographed at Merced, CA.

    10 January 2003

    Crashed.
    There were two minor injuries. The accident occurred at Prescott Love Field (PRC) Prescott, AZ, United States while landing. The damage was substantial. This was the pilots third flight in the airplane accompanied by the owner. There was a right quartering tailwind of 6 knots on the landing runway. After a three-point touchdown, the airplane began to veer to the left at about a 10-DEGREE angle. Right brake was applied for correction, but the airplane continued to turn left...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    16 October 2003

    To Poplar Grove Airmotive Inc, Poplar Grove, IL keeping c/r N1252W.

    5 September 2009


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    5 September 2009


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Blakesburg, IA

    1 January 2010

    Certificate of airworthiness for N1252W (SRE, 5153) issued.

    12 September 2015


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: At Brodhead, Wisconsin

    16 August 2021

    To Poplar Grove Airmotive Inc, Poplar Grove, IL keeping c/r N1252W.
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    Terry Fletcher
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