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Some of this information comes from the listings of Non-Prefixed and Non-Suffixed aircraft reviewed by me in the archives of the National Air & Space Museum (NASM), Washington, DC.
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TRAVEL AIR A-6000-A NC9973
This airplane was a Travel Air model A-6000-A, manufactured July 19, 1929 by the Travel Air Company in Wichita, KS. The manufacturer's serial number was 1094. It left the factory with a Pratt & Whitney engine of 400HP, S/N 1530. It was a six-place airplane of 5,250 pounds gross weight.
NC9973 also landed 21 times at the Grand Central Air Terminal (GCAT). The complete technography for the airplane is on its Web page over at the GCAT site at the link.
According the the NASM records cited in the left sidebar, NC9973 was operated and relicensed through 1936. The NASM record notes simply that NC9973 was, "Sold into Mexico." No further information.
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