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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:SNJ-5 Texan
    Last Military Serial:6208 JMSDF
    Construction Number:88-17282
    Last Civil Registration:G-CHIA
    Compressed ID:NA SNJ-5 sn 6208 JMSDF cn 88-17282...
    Latest Owner or Location:David Spicer/Chiltern Classic Fighter, Bicester

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SNJ-5.

    Was allocated s/n 42-85501 with the United States Army Air Force but was not taken up.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 85061.

    From August 1957 to 1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Japanese Marine Self Defence Force with s/n 6208.

    From 1965 to 1977

    Withdrawn from use.
    And stored.

    26 February 1979

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9012Y (SNJ-5, 85061) issued.

    From 1984 to Circa 1992

    To Ronald D. Paliughi, Visalia CA with new c/r N9012Y.

    October 1984


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: At Beale AFB in October 1984.

    17 December 1997

    To Ag-Air Care Inc, Corvallis, OR keeping c/r N9012Y.

    31 August 2001

    To William H. Clapp, Seattle, WA keeping c/r N9012Y.

    Based at Skagit Regional Airport, Burlington, WA.
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    Markings Applied: 7F/061

    To Peter Tuplin and David Ratcliffe:.

    20 March 2012

    Civil registration, N9012Y, cancelled.
    Exported to United Kingdom.

    20 July 2012

    To The Warplane Flying Company Ltd, Network House, London with new c/r G-CHIA.

    Operated by David Spicer/Chiltern Classic Fighter, Bicester.

    19 November 2012


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: Photographed at Duxford, UK on 19 November 2012.

    18 February 2013


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: North American SNJ-5 G-CHIA / 85061 / 7F-061 at White Waltham. Formerly N9012Y, imported into the UK in July 2012 and, at the time of this photograph, still a fairly new arrival at Waltham
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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