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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:A6M Zero (replica)
    Last Civil Registration:F-AZBL
    Compressed ID:NA A6M cr F-AZBL
    Latest Owner or Location:Aero Retro/Christian Martin, Saint. Rambert dAlbon

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SNJ-5.

    July 1979

    To Christian Martin, Saint. Rambert-DAlbon with new c/r F-AZBL.
    For more information about this other airframe see this Airframe Dossier

    Restored.
    This was a composite rebuild, with components sourced from a French scrapyard. Adopted the ID of USN 90669, which became N9801C.

    From 1980 to 1987

    To Aero Retro/J. Bourret, Saint. Rambert-DAlbon keeping c/r F-AZBL.

    June 1987

    To Aero Retro/Jacques Bourret, Saint. Rambert-DAlbon with new c/r F-WZBM.

    1987

    Converted to an A6M.
    New construction number, SAM2-669, assigned to the airframe.
    Converted to a Zero replica for movie work.

    Used in the filming of the movie Empire of the Sun.

    From September 1989 to 2020

    To Aero Retro/Christian Martin, Saint. Rambert dAlbon with new c/r F-AZBL.

    Markings Applied: 09905, 56S.4
    SNJ-5 Returned to stock military configuration. Finished in Aeronvale markings.

    18 May 2008


    Photographer: Pieter van t Hof/SG Woensdrecht
    Notes: Photo taken at Orange-Caritat airshow. 18/05/2008.

    Markings Applied: 90669, TA-669, Ready for Duty
    Finished in USN markings.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
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