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51-16466
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• 51-16466 US Air Force #1028. L-20A No: 029 Command AF-1. Available and accepted on 22-Feb-1952. Delivered 07-Mar-1952.
• Destroyed in accident 04-Apr-1955 •
USAF History
51-16466 was made available to the AMO (Air Material Overseas) unit of the USAF at Downsview & was initially delivered from Toronto to the Air Research and Development Command at Edwards AFB on 07-Mar-1952 and allocated to the 6510th Air Base Wing from 11-Mar-1952 until 09-Sep-1952. It was then assigned to the Alaskan Air Command at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, and allocated to the 39th Air Depot Wing from 09-Sep-1952 until 01-Apr-1953. On re-designation this became the 5039th Air Transport Sqd on 01-Apr-1953 until 13-Apr-1953, the 5039th Air Base Group between 13-Apr-1953 and 17-Apr-1953, the 5th Liaison Wing from17-Apr-1953 until 11-Sep-1953, and the 5025th Maintenance Wing from 11-Sep-1953 until 12-Oct-1953. Staying at Elmendorf it was re assigned to the 5th Liaison Wing from 12-Oct-1953 until 25-Mar-1954, but is reported as having suffered category 2 damage (minor/medium) in an accident at Skwentna, AK., on 23-Dec-1953 during a takeoff accident whilst attached to the 5039th Air Transport Group. The pilot was Pilot Earl G. Goodwin.
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Emblem of 5039th AT Squadron.
It was assigned to the 5025th Maintenance Wing from 25-Mar-1954 until 17-May-1954, the 5th Liaison Wing from 17-May-1954 until 01-Jun-1954 and finally the 5039th Air Base Wing from 01-Jun-1954 until written off in a landing accident at Fire Island, 12mi. SW of Anchorage, AK., on 04-Apr-1955. The pilot was James H. Hadlock.