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    Airframe Family: Convair L-13 Grasshopper
    Latest Model:L-13A
    Last Military Serial:47-0323 USAF
    Construction Number:203
    Last Civil Registration:N68845
    Compressed ID:Convair L-13A sn 47-0323 USAF cn 20...
    Latest Owner or Location:John J. Schell, Puyallup, WA

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    Dates

    Event

    1949

    Constructed as a L-13A.

    1949

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 47-0323.

    September 1953

    To Greeley Weld County Airport, Greeley, CO with new c/r NR68845.

    13 February 1957

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR68845 (L-13A, 47-323) issued.

    From 1963 to 1964

    To J. H. Hubbs, Durham CA with new c/r N68845.

    From 1966 to 1978

    To Bud Marquis Crop Dusters, Marysville CA keeping c/r N68845.

    From 1978 to 1987

    To Lawrence C. Bud Marquis, Marysville CA keeping c/r N68845.

    22 June 1992

    To J W. Duff DBA, Denver, CO keeping c/r N68845.

    To Greeley Weld County Airport, Greeley, CO.
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    Circa 2010

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    Placed in storage in the restoration hangar.
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    1 January 2013

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR68845 (L-13A, 47-323) issued.

    19 April 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    31 October 2017

    Civil registration, N68845, cancelled.

    March 2019

    NMUSAF advertised this aircraft for sale, non-restored.

    27 November 2020

    Civil registration, N68845, cancelled.

    8 March 2021

    To Clu D. Colvin, Big Cabin, OK with new c/r N68845.

    22 May 2023

    To John J. Schell, Puyallup, WA keeping c/r N68845.
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    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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