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1998


In 1998, Fokker Super Universal CF-AAM, which had been rebuilt to flying condition, took a six-year, criss-cross tour of North American air shows before coming home to its final resting stop at the museum’s hangar doors. AAM is the only flying Fokker Super Universal aircraft left in the world.

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