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    Airframe Family: Vultee BT-13/BT-15/SNV Valiant
    Latest Model:BT-13A Valiant
    Last Military Serial:42-42564 USAAF
    Construction Number:9642
    Last Civil Registration:N61372
    Compressed ID:Vultee BT-13A sn 42-42564 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Heitz Angel Air Services Llc, Manvel, TX

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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 42-42564.

    Circa 1985

    Restoration started.
    By Don Miller at Wiley Post Airport, Oklahoma.

    12 May 2008

    To Donald L. Miller, Edmond, OK with new c/r N818DM.

    Based at Commemorative Air Force-Oklahoma Wing, Wiley Post Airport, Oklahoma City, OK.
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    11 September 2008

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX818DM (BT-13A, 9642) issued.

    Markings Applied: 468

    29 July 2010


    Photographer: Todd Royer
    Notes: EAA Airventure 2010

    28 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Oshkosh

    14 June 2019

    To Heitz Angel Air Services Llc, Manvel, TX with new c/r N61372.

    14 May 2022


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: Smithville Municipal Airport, TX. Spring Fly-in, May 14, 2022.


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    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood

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