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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:AT-6B-NT Texan
    Last Military Serial:41-17372 USAAF
    Construction Number:84-7750
    Last Civil Registration:N96224
    Compressed ID:NA AT-6B-NT sn 41-17372 USAAF cn 84...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AT-6B-NT by North American at Dallas, Texas, USA.

    27 May 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-17372.

    May 1942

    Transferred to 345th School Squadron, Army Air Force Single-Engine Flying Training School (Air Training Command), Luke AAF, AZ.

    26 August 1942

    Damaged.
    Damaged landing at Auxiliary Field #1, six miles north of Luke Field.

    April 1944

    Transferred to 3026th Base Unit (Singe-Engine Advanced Pilot School, ATC), Merced AAF, CA.

    June 1944

    Transferred to 3008th AAF Unit (Technical School, ATC), Minter AAF, CA.

    October 1945

    Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Ontario Field, CA.
    For disposal as surplus.

    Circa 1946

    To unknown owner with c/r NC96224.

    4 October 1976

    To unknown owner with c/r N96224.

    December 1985

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    1986

    Loaned to Chanute Air Force Base Air Park, Rantoul, IL.

    From 1993 to September 2015

    Placed on display with Chanute Air Museum, Chanute AFB (formerly), Rantoul, IL.
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    Markings Applied: 42-805
    Marked as Noorduyn AT-16 Harvard with the 35th Pursuit Sqdn at Langley Field in 1939.

    3 August 2005


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    31 March 2011

    Civil registration, N96224, cancelled.

    6 April 2012


    Photographer: John Meneely
    Notes: Chanute Air Museum, Rantoul, IL, USA

    20 April 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    September 2015

    The museum was closed, so 41-17372 departed Chanute for destination unknown.

    By September 2023

    In the inventory of National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    Spotted in the storage hangar at NMUSAF Dayton, Ohio.
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    13 September 2023


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: in the storage hangar at NMUSAF Dayton

    19 September 2023


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: NMUSAF storage hangar.
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