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    Airframe Family: Aeronca 7 Champion/Citabria / L-16 Grasshopper
    Latest Model:L-16A Grasshopper
    Last Military Serial:47-0971 USAF
    Construction Number:7BCM-971
    Last Civil Registration:N10130
    Compressed ID:Aeronca L-16A sn 47-0971 USAF cn 7B...
    Latest Owner or Location:Alan W. Blunt, Granger, IN

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-16A.
    Built in 1947

    Circa 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 47-0971.

    25 June 1958

    Certificate of airworthiness for N10130 (7AC, 7BCM-971) issued.

    By 1971

    To Joe E. Hood, Tappahanoock, VA with new c/r N10130.

    Markings Applied: LH-971

    To Alan Blunt Granger, IN keeping c/r N10130.

    11 September 2011


    Photographer: David Miller
    Notes: Midwest Antique Airplane ClubaCOs Annual Grassroots fly-in at Brodhead Wisconsin, 2011

    9 June 2016


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: At the MAAC Grassroots Fly-In 2016, at Brodhead, WI

    3 August 2021

    To Alan W. Blunt, Granger, IN with new c/r N10130.
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