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    Airframe Family: Vultee BT-13/BT-15/SNV Valiant
    Latest Model:BT-13A Valiant
    Last Military Serial:41-22926 USAAF
    Construction Number:7356
    Last Civil Registration:N56478
    Compressed ID:Vultee BT-13A sn 41-22926 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Lone Star Executive Airport, Conroe, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a BT-13A.

    1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-22926.

    By 1968

    To unknown owner with c/r N56478.

    1969

    Markings Applied: BII-478
    Converted to replica Japanese D3A Val dive bomber replica for the movie, Tora, Tora, Tora.

    30 September 1974


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: At Movieland of the Air, California

    From 1976 to 1978

    Flew in the TV series, Baa Baa Black Sheep.

    17 April 1980

    Certificate of airworthiness for N56478 (BT-13A, 7356) issued.

    15 February 1984

    To Wanliss E. Armstrong, Jal, NE keeping c/r N56478.
    Markings added: 78

    1986


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Slaton Airport, TX

    1986


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Slaton Airport, TX.

    By October 1992

    Markings Applied: Confederate Air Force
    Title on tail under horizontal stabilizers.

    8 November 2000

    To American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, Midland, TX keeping c/r N56478.

    In the inventory of Commemorative Air Force Airpower Museum, Midland International Airport (MAF), Midland, TX.
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    2001

    Flew in the movie Pearl Harbor.

    2006

    Shown in the background in the movie Letters From Iwo Jima.

    7 November 2010


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Warriors and Warbirds Airshow, Monroe NC

    26 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at 2011 Tyndall AFB Open House

    24 August 2015

    To American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, Dallas, TX keeping c/r N56478.

    Based at Commemorative Air Force-Gulf Coast Wing, David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport (DWH), Houston, TX.
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    By 2016

    Markings Applied: BI-78

    April 2016


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    April 2016


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    26 June 2016


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Davenport, IA for the Quad Cities Airshow

    1 January 2017

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX56478 (BT-13A, 7356) issued.

    Based at Lone Star Executive Airport, Conroe, TX.
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    Markings Applied: 78

    6 April 2018


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Space Coast Warbird Airshow, Titusville, FL. Tora! Tora! Tora!
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    AMCAR
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    The Aircraft-Spotters Film and Television Companion by Simon D. Beck
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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     Glenn Chatfield
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