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    Airframe Family: Vultee BT-13/BT-15/SNV Valiant
    Latest Model:BT-13A Valiant
    Last Military Serial:41-11355 USAAF
    Construction Number:74-2365
    Last Civil Registration:N60828
    Compressed ID:Vultee BT-13A sn 41-11355 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    1941

    Constructed as a BT-13A.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-11355.

    Transferred to 324th Basic Flying Training Squadron, Minter Field, Bakersfield, CA.

    29 December 1943

    Damaged.
    Taxiing accident at Minter Field, CA, pilot William T. Backof.

    12 March 1945

    Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Gary Field, TX.

    By 1956

    To unknown owner with c/r N60828.

    17 June 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N60828 (BT-13A, 2935) issued.

    By 1964

    To Campbell W. Collins, Mountain, NC keeping c/r N60828.

    1982

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    Up until the aircraft going to NAS Pensacola.its manufacturers serial number for N60828 was quoted as 2935 - after it was put on display the msn is now quoted as 74-2365 which was the serial of N57248.

    Markings Applied: 60828
    Marked as Navy SNV-1.

    29 June 1990

    To unknown owner with c/r N60828.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Pensacola, FL.

    10 November 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Pensacola Air Show

    27 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola NAS, Pensacola, Florida

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    31 May 2013

    Civil registration, N60828, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Pensacola, FL.

    1 January 2017

    Certificate of airworthiness for N60828 (BT-13A, 2935) issued.

    1 January 2017

    To unknown owner with c/r N60828.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Pensacola, FL.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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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
     Aviation Archaeology
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
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