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    Airframe Family: Vultee BT-13/BT-15/SNV Valiant
    Latest Model:BT-13A Valiant
    Last Military Serial:41-23063 USAAF
    Construction Number:7710
    Last Civil Registration:VH-JKV
    Compressed ID:Vultee BT-13A sn 41-23063 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Albury Airport, Albury, New South Wales

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    Dates

    Event

    1942

    Constructed as a BT-13A.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-23063.

    11 January 1978

    To John Kempton, Albury, NSW with new c/r VH-JKV.

    19 June 1984

    To Action Aero Inc, Bristow, OK with new c/r N51BT.

    11 August 1989

    To Harlan D. Screws, Vernon, TE with new c/r N2034L.

    21 September 1992

    To Harlan D. Screws, Vernon, TE keeping c/r N2034L.
    Last CR action date noted here.

    27 December 1996

    To Mark A. Diaz, Fresno, CA with new c/r N51BT.

    6 May 1997

    Civil registration, N51BT, cancelled.
    FAA records indicate it was destroyed. It was possibly scrapped.

    Based at Richard Lloyd Jones Jr. Municipal Airport, Tulsa, OK.
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    6 October 2003

    To Donohue Andrew, Sapulpa, OK keeping c/r N51BT.

    5 March 2006

    Certificate of airworthiness for N51BT (BT-13A, 7710) issued.

    29 June 2009

    To Brandon M. Holland, Sapulpa, OK with new c/r N51BT.

    16 September 2011

    Civil registration, N51BT, cancelled.
    Exported to Australia.

    21 February 2012

    To John James Kempton, Albury, NSW with new c/r VH-JKV (BT-13A, 7710).

    Based at Albury Airport, Albury, New South Wales.
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    March 2015


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: Based at Albury, NSW
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    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Australian Government, Civil Aviation Safety Authority
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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