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Aircraft:
Piper L-14 Army Cruiser
- Reg: EC-AAP photos
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Serial #:
5-3007
- Airline: Fundación Infante de Orleans
- Photo Date: Nov 04, 2018
- Uploaded: Jun 27, 2020
- Madrid Cuatro Vientos Airport - LECU, Spain
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The only example of the L–14 in existence, worldwide and Has the oldest Spanish registration, being the first entry in the Spanish Government Aircraft Registry. S/n 5-3007 was manufactured in 1945 by the Piper Aircraft Company of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. The US Army gave it the number 5-55531. After the initial test flights this aircraft was then sold, following the cancellation of the bulk order by the US Army, to the Falcon Flying School of Miami, where it was given the civil registration NC-41594. This was early in 1946. Not long after, on 12th March 1946, it was sold and exported to Cuba where it was re-registered as CU-P18 and based at Santa Fe airport just outside Havana. Shortly afterwards it was acquired by a Cuban firm, Auto Moderno S.A. and re-registered as CU-N18. In April 1947 the aircraft was bought by a Spaniard, Don Jose Luis Lopez de Carrizosa, the Marquis of Merito, who shipped it to Spain where it was registered as EC-AAP on 10th May 1947. It then flew for his company, AEROTECNICA S.A. On 2nd April 1952 it was sold to Doña Maria Victoria Puentedura Ojea and flew with the Malaga Aero Club. On 6th August 1955 it was bought by Don Manuel Lopez Manteola who took the aircraft to Asturias. It was then sold again, on 25th January 1956, to Don Antonio Figaredo, who continued to keep it at Asturias until, its flying days almost over, it was transferred to Leon for a complete overhaul which, in fact, never took place. In 1989 it was found there, in Leon, by its present owner who, in 1994, moved it to Burgos in order to restore it to a state of complete airworthiness. In May 2003 it flew again!
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The only example of the L–14 in existence, worldwide and Has the oldest Spanish registration, being the first entry in the Spanish Government Aircraft Registry. S/n 5-3007 was manufactured in 1945 by the Piper Aircraft Company of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. The US Army gave it the number 5-55531. After the initial test flights this aircraft was then sold, following the cancellation of the bulk order by the US Army, to the Falcon Flying School of Miami, where it was given the civil registration NC-41594. This was early in 1946. Not long after, on 12th March 1946, it was sold and exported to Cuba where it was re-registered as CU-P18 and based at Santa Fe airport just outside Havana. Shortly afterwards it was acquired by a Cuban firm, Auto Moderno S.A. and re-registered as CU-N18. In April 1947 the aircraft was bought by a Spaniard, Don Jose Luis Lopez de Carrizosa, the Marquis of Merito, who shipped it to Spain where it was registered as EC-AAP on 10th May 1947. It then flew for his company, AEROTECNICA S.A. On 2nd April 1952 it was sold to Doña Maria Victoria Puentedura Ojea and flew with the Malaga Aero Club. On 6th August 1955 it was bought by Don Manuel Lopez Manteola who took the aircraft to Asturias. It was then sold again, on 25th January 1956, to Don Antonio Figaredo, who continued to keep it at Asturias until, its flying days almost over, it was transferred to Leon for a complete overhaul which, in fact, never took place. In 1989 it was found there, in Leon, by its present owner who, in 1994, moved it to Burgos in order to restore it to a state of complete airworthiness. In May 2003 it flew again!Camera
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- Reg: EC-AAP photos
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Aircraft:
Piper L-14 Army Cruiser
- Airline: Fundación Infante de Orleans
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Serial #:
5-3007
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Madrid Cuatro Vientos Airport - LECU
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