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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:BT-9C
    Last Military Serial:3417 RCAF
    Construction Number:64-2168
    Last Civil Registration:N4737G
    Compressed ID:NA BT-9C sn 3417 RCAF cn 64-2168 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    1940

    Constructed as a Yale W/T.
    Constructed for the Frence Armee de lAir but not delivered due to France being overrun during the German blitzkrieg.

    17 September 1940

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 3417.

    Transferred to No 1 SFTS Camp Borden, ON.

    6 August 1942

    Damaged.
    Damaged at Borden. Evaluated as Category C.

    Transferred to No 1 Flight Instructors School, Trenton, ON.

    25 September 1946

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Canadian Air Force.

    From Circa 1946 to Circa 1969

    To Ernest V Simmons, Tillsonburg, ON.

    From 1969 to 1970

    To Lary D. Juengel, Rochester, MI with new c/r N4737G.

    24 May 1969


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: At Watsonville

    1974

    To Wayne Fredline, Sparta, MI keeping c/r N4737G.

    From March 1974 to By 1978

    To Challenge Warbirds Inc/Challenge Publications/Edwin Schnepf, Van Nuys, CA keeping c/r N4737G.

    11 May 1976

    To Challenge Publications Inc, Canoga Park, CA keeping c/r N4737G.

    1978

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Restored as a BT-9C.
    Markings Applied: 737, 39-1737
    Finished in USAAC markings.

    19 July 1984

    Civil registration, N4737G, cancelled.

    21 July 1988


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    Markings Applied: 737, 38-224, 858831
    Again marked as a USAAC BT-9.

    13 August 1998


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    26 October 2007


    Photographer: Shane Clayton
    Notes: Former RCAF Yale 3417 on display at the National Museum of the USAF in Dayton, Ohio as a BT-9/BT-14.

    14 May 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Canadian Military Aircraft - Serials and Photographs by J. A. Griffin
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Shane Clayton
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