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    Airframe Family: Vultee BT-13/BT-15/SNV Valiant
    Latest Model:BT-15 Valiant
    Last Military Serial:42-1779 USAAF
    Construction Number:6720
    Last Civil Registration:N75004
    Compressed ID:Vultee BT-15 sn 42-1779 USAAF cn 67...
    Latest Owner or Location:Commemorative Air Force - Rio Grande Valley Wing, Brownsville / South Padre Is. International Airport, Brownsville, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a BT-15.

    1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-1779.

    5 December 1955

    Certificate of airworthiness for N75004 (BT-15, 6720) issued.

    6 October 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Vultee BT-15 Valiant of the Confederate Air Force seen at their 1978 Airshow at Harlingen, Texas.

    9 October 1982


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1982 photo at Harlingen, TX - of Vultee BT-15 Valiant

    2 February 1984

    To Dennis A. Bowman, Harlingen, TX with new c/r N75004.

    1 January 2005

    Certificate of airworthiness for N75004 (BT-15, 6720) issued.

    28 July 2009

    To BT Warbird Llc, Sarasota, FL keeping c/r N75004.

    Based at Commemorative Air Force-Rio Grande Valley Wing, Brownsville/South Padre Is. International Airport, Brownsville, TX.
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    Markings Applied: B004

    By 30 October 2009


    Photographer: Tom Smith

    11 March 2011


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: TICO Airshow, Titusville, FL.

    27 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Arriving at 2012 Sun N Fun

    30 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2012 Sun N Fun

    22 March 2013


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: TICO Airshow, Titusville, FL.

    6 September 2018


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Triple Tree Aerodrome, Woodruff SC
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    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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     Terry Fletcher
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