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    Airframe Family: Howard DGA-15 / C-70 / GH / NH
    Latest Model:NH-1
    Last Military Serial:29457 USN
    Construction Number:0782
    Last Civil Registration:N29457
    Compressed ID:Howard NH-1 sn 29457 USN cn 0782 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Roger K. Brown, Port Saint Lucie, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as a NH-1.

    1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 29457.

    1946

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.
    300 flight hours on the airframe.

    December 1946

    In Oklahoma City being converted to civil use by installing a rear seat and having military radio gear replaced with new civilian equipment. The fuselage was re-covered, control surfaces rejuvenated, windshield replaced and interior re-trimmed, and finally given an airworthiness inspection.

    Circa 1947

    To unknown owner with c/r N4622N.

    Circa 1948

    To Five USAF Officers, Including General Curtiss LeMay keeping c/r N4622N.

    6 July 1955

    To 2nd LT. Tad D. Hammond keeping c/r N4622N.
    Was General LeMays personal pilot.

    25 September 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N4622N (DGA-15P, 782) issued.

    To unknown owner with c/r N4622N.
    Passed through several owners.

    May 1973

    Restored.
    814 hrs on the airframe.

    To unknown owner with c/r N88WT.

    Circa 1982


    Photographer: Donald F. McDonald, Jr

    August 1982

    To Donald F. McDonald, Jr, College Station, TX keeping c/r N88WT.

    28 July 1983

    Involved in an incident.
    Aircraft left runway on roll out and struck a drainage ditch, tearing off left main landing gear.

    28 July 1983


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At DuPage Airport, West Chicago, iL

    28 July 1983

    This aircraft was built at the Howard factory next to what is now the DuPage Airport in West Chicago. The airport at the time belonged to the Navy and Howard built a factory there for wartime production. This aircraft rolled out in the fall of 1943. The landing at DuPage Airport with the mishap apparently was the first time the plane had been at DPA since it was built. It came to rest about 500-700 ft from where it rolled out of the factory 40 years earlier. Pilot was on his way to the EAA Convention at Oshkosh, with intent to sell the aircraft.

    4 May 1990

    To Harry Ringler, Hermitage, TX keeping c/r N88WT.

    3 December 1994

    Crashed.
    The accident occurred at the Las Cruces Municipal Airport (LCR) Las Cruces, NM, United States while landing. The damage was substantial. The pilot was conducting the fourth touch and go landing, under the supervision of an instructor pilot, when the right main landing gear failed. Following the collapse of the landing gear the aircraft veered right of the runway and ground looped. An examination of the landing gear revealed a pre-existing crack in a weld area...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    29 July 1996

    To Kelly J. Bare, Lakeland, FL with new c/r N115KB.

    4 August 2010

    To Roger K. Brown, Port Saint Lucie, FL with new c/r N29457.

    1 August 2014


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Oshkosh

    25 July 2016


    Photographer: Mark Pasqualino
    Notes: At Oshkosh

    26 August 2020

    To Roger K. Brown, Port Saint Lucie, FL keeping c/r N29457.

    30 July 2023


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: At Oshkosh, WI.


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