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    Airframe Family: Bleriot XI
    Latest Model:XI
    Construction Number:56
    Last Civil Registration:N60094
    Compressed ID:Bleriot XI cn 56 cr N60094
    Latest Owner or Location:Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, Rhinebeck, New York

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    Dates

    Event

    1909

    Constructed as a XI.
    Bleriot 11 56

    1910

    Crashed.
    Crashed at an air meet in Sauguss, MA.

    To Professor H. H. Coburn.

    To Bill Champlin of Laconia.

    1952

    To Cole Palen.

    29 June 1979

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX60094 (11, 56) issued.

    22 November 1994

    To Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum, Rhinebeck, NY with new c/r N60094.

    Based at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, Rhinebeck, NY.
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    The front third and rear third of the fuselage are original.

    2015

    It is the oldest flying aircraft in the United States, and the second oldest flying aircraft in the world.

    10 October 2015


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome

    10 October 2015


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 1909 original Bleriot XI displayed at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome - this 106 year old aircraft is the oldest flying aircraft in the United States, and the second oldest flying aircraft in the world.
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