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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:SNJ-5 Texan
    Last Military Serial:43667 USN
    Construction Number:88-15368
    Last Civil Registration:N43AF
    Compressed ID:NA SNJ-5 sn 43667 USN cn 88-15368 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Vonier Motors Corp, Wilmington, DE

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AT-6D.

    1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-34402.
    NOT TOS, transferred directly to the Navy.

    1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 43667 as a SNJ-5.

    June 1959

    To unknown owner with c/r N3146G.

    From 1965 to 1975

    Stored unrestored Chino, CA area.

    1975

    To Dennis G. Buehn, Compton, CA keeping c/r N3146G.

    From 1975 to 1976

    Restored.
    Restoration at Chino as a Buehn North American SNJ-5.

    26 January 1976

    Certificate of airworthiness for N3146G (NORTH AMERICAN SNJ-5, 43667) issued.

    1981

    To Greg G. Burnett, Oklahoma City, OK keeping c/r N3146G.

    7 February 1989

    To E. Alan Fitz, Iowa Falls, IA keeping c/r N3146G.

    May 1989

    To E. Alan Fitz, Iowa Falls, IA with new c/r N43AF.

    17 June 1990

    Crashed.
    Damaged when the aircraft lost directional control on a crosswind landing, veered off the runway and came to rest inverted in three feet of water at Iowa Falls, IA.

    Based at Iowa Aviation Heritage Museum, Ankeny Regional Airport, Des Moines, IA.
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    17 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Ankeny, IA

    17 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Ankeny, IA

    Placed on display with Fliegermuseum (Swiss Flying Museum), Altenrhein Airport, Altenrhein, Saint Gallen.
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    3 September 2017

    To Vonier Motors Corp, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N43AF.

    1 April 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Altenrhein, Switzerland

    16 August 2021


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Grenchen


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    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

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    Aerodata Quantum+
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

    Individual Contributors
    John Bennett
    Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger

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