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    Airframe Family: North American O-47
    Latest Model:RO-47B
    Last Military Serial:39-0112 USAAF
    Construction Number:51-1025
    Last Civil Registration:N73722
    Compressed ID:NA RO-47B sn 39-0112 USAAF cn 51-10...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    1939

    Constructed as an O-47B.

    Circa 1939

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Corps with s/n 39-112.

    Transferred to 113th Observation Squadron, Five Corps Area, Key Field, Meridian, MS.

    20 June 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 39-0112 as a RO-47B.

    1 September 1941

    Transferred to 113th Observation Squadron, 67th Observation Group, Lafayette Field, LA.

    4 September 1941

    Damaged.
    Substantially damaged after engine failure taking off fromAaLafayette Field, LA.

    By September 1942

    Transferred to 113th Observation Squadron, 77th Observation Group, DeRidder Field, LA.

    5 September 1942

    Damaged.
    Substantially damaged after engine failure taking off fromAaShreveport Municipal Airport, LA.

    By April 1943

    Transferred to 384th Bomb Squadron, 311th Bomb Group, Waycross Field, GA.

    11 April 1943

    Damaged.
    Damaged taxying at Waycross Field, GA.

    16 December 1944

    Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation, McKellar Field, TN.

    1946

    To Herman Dugo, Saint. Louis MO with new c/r NC73722.

    From 1947 to 1956

    To Aero Exploration Co, Tulsa OK with new c/r N73722.

    16 July 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR73722 (047B, 51-1025) issued.

    From 1963 to 1966

    To Compania Mexicana Aerophoto, Mexico City with new c/r XB-YUW.

    April 1968

    Noted as N73722/XB-YUW at Topeka KS.

    From 1969 to 1978

    To Johan M. Larsen, Minneapolis MN with new c/r N73722.

    1978

    To Loren L. Florey Jr., Eden Prairie, MN keeping c/r N73722.

    1978

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    1979

    Restored.
    The 179th Consolidated Aircraft MaintenanceSquadron, Ohio Air National Guard, Mansfield, Ohio, restored the aircraft in the markings of an O-47A of the 112th Observation Squadron of the Ohio National Guard, 37-328.

    14 January 1982

    To unknown owner with c/r N73722.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Tulsa, OK.

    28 July 1986


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Displayed in the annex

    28 July 1986


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    18 July 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio.

    13 August 1998


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Hanging in the annex

    6 May 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    16 October 2012

    Civil registration, N73722, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Tulsa, OK.

    1 January 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR73722 (047B, 51-1025) issued.

    1 January 2016

    To unknown owner with c/r N73722.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Tulsa, OK.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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