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    Airframe Family: Weaver Aircraft Company (WACO) 10 / GXE / O-Series
    Latest Model:GXE
    Construction Number:1801
    Last Civil Registration:N7970
    Compressed ID:Weaver Aircraft Company (WACO) GXE...
    Latest Owner or Location:Texas Air Museum Inc, San Antonio, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    1929

    Constructed as a GXE.

    To Hancock Foundation College of Aeronautics, Santa Maria, CA with new c/r NC7970.

    From 1929 to 1930

    Nancy Fullmer comments (16 January 2018): My grandfather Kenneth Mathews was a student pilot at Hancock Foundation College of Aeronautics in Santa Maria, CA. He flew Waco NC 7970. It was the plane he soloed in. He flew it cross country from Santa Maria to Cloverdale, CA. May 9-10, 1930, refueling in Hollister both ways. I learned all this from the flight log book he kept at the time.

    9 June 1971

    Certificate of airworthiness for N7970 issued.

    By 5 July 1971

    To unknown owner with c/r N7970.

    5 July 1971

    Involved in an incident.
    Summarized NTSB narrative from report number FTW72DRG03: There were no fatalities. Incident occurred at 18:25 hours. The damage was substantial. Incident occurred at the Stinson Field Airport, San Antonio, TX. This was a local flight from San Antonio, TX. The gear collapsed on touch down. Report remarks include: Left landing gear axle failed.
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    30 January 1979

    To Max A. Krueger Jr, San Antonio, TX keeping c/r N7970.

    29 May 2008

    To Texas Air Museum Inc, San Antonio, TX keeping c/r N7970.

    1 January 2009

    Certificate of airworthiness for N7970 (GXE, 1801) issued.

    Circa 1 January 2009

    To Max A. Krueger Jr, San Antonio, TX keeping c/r N7970.

    To Texas Air Museum-San Antonio Chapter/Stinson Chapter, Stinson Municipal Airport/Stinson Field, San Antonio, TX.
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    November 2015


    Photographer: Ruud Leeuw
    Notes: 2015 photo at the Texas Air Museum at Stinson Field, San Antonio

    22 January 2023

    To Texas Air Museum Inc, San Antonio, TX keeping c/r N7970.

    9 May 2024


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at San Antonio - Stinson MAP, TX, USA
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    Nancy Fullmer
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