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    Airframe Family: Swiss American Aviation Corporation Learjet
    Latest Model:C-21A Learjet
    Last Military Serial:84-0081 USAF
    Construction Number:35A-527
    Last Civil Registration:N527Z
    Compressed ID:Swiss American Aviation Corporation...
    Latest Owner or Location:76th Airlift Squadron, 86th Airlift Wing, Ramstein AFB, Germany

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-21A.
    Built in 1984

    To Security Pacific Equipment Leasing San Francisco CA with new c/r N400AX.
    Leased to USAF.

    Circa 1984

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 84-0081.

    18 August 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at the TVS Airshow, Hurn

    By August 1984

    Transferred to 7005th ABS, USEUCOM, Stuttgart Apt, FRG.

    20 November 1986

    Lease arrangement ended. Sold Nov 20, 1986 to USAF, Wright Patterson AFB, OH;.

    June 1991

    To HQ Useucom Flight Section, Stuttgart, Germany.

    19 July 2003


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At RIAT Fairford.

    12 July 2005

    Civil registration, N400AX, cancelled.
    0081 (MSN 35A-527) registered N400AX. Sale reported Nov 20, 1986 to USAF, Wright Patterson AFB, OH;.

    Transferred to 76th Airlift Squadron, 86th Airlift Wing, Ramstein AFB, Germany.

    7 November 2014

    For sale by GSA Auctions at Rose Aircraft Inc, Mena, AR, Nov 7, 2014.

    23 January 2015

    To unknown owner with c/r N527Z.
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    Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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