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    Airframe Family: Vultee BT-13/BT-15/SNV Valiant
    Latest Model:BT-13A Valiant
    Last Military Serial:42-89379 USAAF
    Construction Number:11756
    Last Civil Registration:N79VV
    Compressed ID:Vultee BT-13A sn 42-89379 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum Inc, Detroit, MI

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a BT-13A.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-89379.

    18 September 1996

    To Drews F John, Lake Mills, WI with new c/r N1204N.

    1998

    Restored.

    12 April 1999

    Certificate of airworthiness for N79VV (BT-13A, 11756) issued.

    30 November 2007

    To Valiant Echoes Inc, Lebanon, TN with new c/r N79VV.

    23 April 2009


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Sun-n-Fun, Lakeland Linder Regional Airport, Lakeland FL

    23 April 2009


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Sun-n-Fun, Lakeland Linder Regional Airport, Lakeland FL

    23 April 2009


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Sun-n-Fun, Lakeland Linder Regional Airport, Lakeland FL

    Based at Lebanon Municipal Airport (M54), Lebanon, TN.
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    By 25 July 2011

    Markings Applied: Grace, EM35, 42-89379, N79VV

    25 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: AT 2011 Oshkosh

    1 January 2012

    Certificate of airworthiness for N1204N (BT-13A, 11756) issued.

    4 August 2012


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at Thunder Over Michigan at the historic Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

    4 August 2012


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at Thunder Over Michigan at the historic Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

    4 August 2012


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at Thunder Over Michigan at the historic Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

    19 July 2017

    Civil registration, N79VV, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    28 September 2017

    To David Grainger, Mulmur, ON with new c/r C-FXYP.

    10 November 2022

    Civil registration, C-FXYP, cancelled.

    29 November 2022

    To Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum Inc, Detroit, MI with new c/r N79VV.

    26 June 2023

    Certificate of airworthiness for N79VV (BT-13A, 11756) issued.
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    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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    Mike Henniger
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