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Harvard
Serial #: RCAF2970
Construction #: 66-2703
Civil Registration:
  N9799Z   N97GM
  N97AW
Model:
  Harvard Mk. II
Name: Tinkertoy
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2021
History:
Delivered to Royal Canadian Air Force as 2970.
Jack Briggs, Prineville, OR, 1969-1972.
  • Registered as N9799Z.
Gary J. Meermans, Long Beach, CA, 1976-1986.
  • Registered as N97GM.
  • Flew as race #97.
Bruce Redding/Apexxco Inc, Canby, OR, August 1986.
  • Registered as N97AW.
Tom Dwelle, Auburn, CA, 1987.
  • Flew as race #7/Tinkertoy.
James W. Bennett, Euless, TX, 1987-2002.
  • Flew as race #7/Tinkertoy.
Thomas A. Dwelle, Auburn, CA, December 2004-2021.
  • Flown in Royal Canadian Navy scheme as 97/Tinkertoy/Race #7.
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2020.
Flightaware.
Federal Aviation Administration.
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