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    Airframe Family: Yakovlev Yak-52
    Latest Model:Yak-52
    Construction Number:855108
    Last Civil Registration:VH-VMI
    Compressed ID:Yakovlev Yak-52 cn 855108 cr VH-VMI...
    Latest Owner or Location:John Stuart Caldwell, Nelson Bay, NSW

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    Dates

    Event

    1985

    Constructed as a Yak-52.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army, Aviation, and Fleet and operated with these markings: 175 RED.

    17 August 2007

    Certificate of airworthiness for N3148U (YAK 52, 855108) issued.

    9 April 2009

    To Kyle J. Scott, Fort Morgan, CO with new c/r N3148U.

    16 November 2011

    To Matthew Todd Webber, Lochinvar, NSW with new c/r VH-VMI.

    19 June 2012

    Civil registration, N3148U, cancelled.
    Exported to Australia.

    4 September 2012

    To Matthew Todd Webber, Lochinvar, NSW keeping c/r VH-VMI.
    Markings added: Vodka Blue

    14 March 2014


    Photographer: Jennifer Scarf
    Notes: Photographed during a visit to Luskintyre Airfield, New South Wales in March 2014

    1 May 2015

    To John Stuart Caldwell, Nelson Bay, NSW keeping c/r VH-VMI.

    3 July 2016


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: At Luskintyre, New South Wales, Australia

    26 May 2018


    Photographer: Ian McDonell
    Notes: At Watts Bridge, Queensland, Australia
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