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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:T-6G Texan
    Last Military Serial:7721 SAAF
    Last Civil Registration:N7721Z
    Compressed ID:NA T-6G sn 7721 SAAF cr N7721Z
    Latest Owner or Location:Van Nuys Airport, Los Angeles, California

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    Dates

    Event

    1945

    Constructed as an AT-6F-NT by North American at Dallas, Texas, USA.

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force.
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    18 September 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force.

    October 1954

    Remanufactured as a T-6G.
    New construction number, SA-068, assigned to the airframe.
    From batch of 30 T-6s requested by SAAF to be brought up to T-6G standards, not part of USAF T-6G orders.

    March 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South African Air Force with s/n 7721.

    1962

    Transferred to 8 Squadron, Bloemspruit Air Field, South Africa.

    1994

    Transported by ship.
    Shipped to Chile for an air show.

    1994

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the South African Air Force.

    1994

    To South African Armscor: Civil Disposal, Chile.

    1994

    To John P. Vick, Longmont, CO.

    1994

    Transported by ship.
    Transported to USA.

    13 July 1994

    To John P. Vick, Longmont, CO with new c/r N26PW.

    To Pat Wiesner keeping c/r N26PW.

    28 April 1995

    Certificate of airworthiness for N26PW (AT-6G, SA068) issued.

    1995

    To CB Air Inc, Englewood CO keeping c/r N26PW.

    28 June 1995

    To Mike Silbertein, Medical Diagnostic Imaging Inc, Encino, CA with new c/r N7721Z.

    Mike Silbertein saw an article about this plane, and he had flown it while a member of the SAAF, so he sought to acquire the aircraft.

    From 1995 to 1998

    Loaned to CB Air Inc, Englewood, CO.
    This company restored the aircraft.

    18 November 1998

    To Mike Silbertein, Medical Diagnostic Imaging Inc, Saint Louis, MO keeping c/r N7721Z.

    5 August 1999


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA

    19 January 2011

    To Mike Silbertein, Medical Diagnostic Imaging Inc, Sacramento, CA keeping c/r N7721Z.

    Based at Van Nuys Airport, Los Angeles, CA.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Saint Louis Aviation Journal
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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