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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:SNJ-5 Texan
    Last Military Serial:111966 USN
    Construction Number:121-42679
    Last Civil Registration:N966K
    Compressed ID:NA SNJ-5 sn 111966 USN cn 121-42679...
    Latest Owner or Location:John R. Kerpa, Quartz Hill, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AT-6F.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-81957.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 111966 as a SNJ-5.

    From 1963 to 1977

    To Amalio N. Polidor, Mundelein, IL with new c/r N9828C.

    Placed on display with Victory Air Museum/Earl Reinert, Air Estates Inc Airport, Mundelein, IL.
    Brandon Kunicki: Painted in gloss yellow when I saw it in the late 1970s at the Victory Air Museum.
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    20 July 1977

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9828C (SNJ-6, 111966) issued.

    9 October 1984


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1984 photo at Oakland International, California

    From 1986 to 1992

    To Gary Flanders and Mike Bogue, Menlo Park, CA keeping c/r N9828C.

    From 1989 to 1991

    Stored at Stockton CA, pending restoration.

    July 1991

    Spotted at Stockton, CA with 111966 on a plate in the cockpit.

    6 January 1993

    To Dick Brooks Inc, Spartanburg, SC with new c/r N890DB.

    6 April 2011

    To unknown owner with c/r N890DB.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Davidson, NC.

    14 May 2011

    To G and J Sixers Inc, Davidson, NC keeping c/r N890DB.

    12 July 2011

    Certificate of airworthiness for N890DB (SNJ-6, 111966) issued.

    8 October 2011


    Photographer: Owen ORourke
    Notes: At the VAA Vintage Aircraft Fall Fly-In at Woodward Field Airport, Camden, SC

    26 August 2013

    To John R. Kerpa, Quartz Hill, CA keeping c/r N890DB.

    5 April 2016

    To John R. Kerpa, Quartz Hill, CA with new c/r N966K.
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     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
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     Brandon Kunicki
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