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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:SNJ-4 Texan
    Last Military Serial:27823 USN
    Construction Number:88-13519
    Last Civil Registration:N6423D
    Compressed ID:NA SNJ-4 sn 27823 USN cn 88-13519 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:John C. Tune Airport, Nashville, Tennessee

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SNJ-4.

    1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 27823.

    1953


    Photographer: Alan Weber
    Notes: My father soled in this same airplane at Whitting Field, NAS Pensacola in 1953. Here is the log book entry.

    1953


    Photographer: Alan Weber
    Notes: Brothers Bob and Albert Weber shown here were in the same NavCad class and both flew this airplane in 1953.

    24 November 1953


    Photographer: Alan Weber
    Notes: This is NavCad Albert Weber standing on the wing of this airplane right after his solo flight. It was all yellow at the time and was A/C #47 with the a WB tail code (Whitting Field).

    From By 1963 to By 1964

    To McCollum Aviation, Tampa, FL with new c/r N6423D.

    16 February 1966

    To Fred O. Eiler, Tarentum, PE keeping c/r N6423D.

    By 1995

    Civil registration pending.

    14 March 1996

    Certificate of airworthiness for N6423D (SNJ-4, 88-13519) issued.

    16 May 1997

    Based at Tennessee Museum of Aviation, Sevierville, TN.
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    16 May 1997

    To Tennessee Museum of Flight, Knoxville, TN keeping c/r N6423D.

    16 May 1997

    To Tennessee Museum of Flight, Knoxville, TN keeping c/r N6423D.

    16 May 1997

    To Tennessee Museum of Flight, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N6423D.

    5 January 2011

    To Austin Bill DBA, Sparta, TN keeping c/r N6423D.

    24 January 2012

    To unknown owner with c/r N6423D.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Nashville, TN.

    24 February 2012

    To Tennessee Flying MacHines Llc, Nashville, TN keeping c/r N6423D.

    To John C. Tune Airport, Nashville, TN.
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    28 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2012 Sun N Fun

    28 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2012 Sun N Fun

    July 2012


    Photographer: Alan Weber
    Notes: Air Venture, Oshkosh 2012.

    July 2012


    Photographer: Alan Weber

    1 January 2014

    Certificate of airworthiness for N6423D (SNJ-4, 88-13519) issued.

    July 2014


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At 2014 EAA Airventure at Oshkosh, Wisconsin

    6 April 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Sun-N-Fun, Lakeland, FL.

    6 April 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Sun-N-Fun, Lakeland, FL.

    4 April 2019


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Sun-N-Fun, Lakeland, FL.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    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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