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    Airframe Family: Vultee BT-13/BT-15/SNV Valiant
    Latest Model:SNV-2 Valiant
    Last Military Serial:52441 USN
    Construction Number:79-0759
    Last Civil Registration:N8527P
    Compressed ID:Vultee SNV-2 sn 52441 USN cn 79-075...
    Latest Owner or Location:Owens Wilbur, RCH Palos VRD, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SNV-2.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 52441.

    To John R. Blair, Jeffersonville, OH with new c/r N36362.

    2 April 1979

    Civil registration, N36362, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    8 July 1980

    Certificate of airworthiness for N36362 (BT-13, 79-758) issued.

    By 8 July 1980

    Civil registration, N36362, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    1982


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at Geneseo, NY. Photo from the Tom Roberts Collection.

    13 January 1982

    To Valiant Aircraft Co Inc/Bob Moses, Buffalo, NY with new c/r N8527P.

    1983


    Photographer: Tom Roberts Collection

    To Wings of Eagles Discovery Center, Elmira, Horseheads, NY.
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    1 January 2008

    Certificate of airworthiness for N8527P (BT-13, 79-758) issued.

    17 April 2008

    To Owens Wilbur, RCH Palos VRD, CA keeping c/r N8527P.

    Based at Torrance Municipal Airport-Zamperini Field, Los Angeles, CA.
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    By 22 May 2013

    Markings Applied: 05, TU-05, 42-89945
    Finished in spurious markings.

    22 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: On the ramp at Torrance Municipal Airport, California

    1 June 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the 2013 Wings Over Gillespie Airshow in San Diego, California

    1 June 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2013 Wings Over Gillespie Airshow in San Diego, California

    26 June 2017

    To Owens Wilbur, RCH Palos VRD, CA keeping c/r N8527P.


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

    Print Sources
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden

    Internet Sources
    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America

    Individual Contributors
    Tony Broadhurst
    Mike Henniger

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