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    Airframe Family: Stinson SR/V-77/AT-19/C-81/L-9 Reliant
    Latest Model:Reliant I
    Last Military Serial:FB745 RAF
    Construction Number:77-0473
    Last Civil Registration:N5490N
    Compressed ID:Stinson Reliant I sn FB745 RAF cn 7...
    Latest Owner or Location:Vintage Flying Museum, Fort Worth Meacham Airport / Meacham Field, Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a V-77 by Vultee.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-44186.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n FB745 as a Reliant I.

    Circa 1956

    To Ed Cordell and Don Dawson with new c/r N5490N.

    18 July 1957

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5490N (V77, 77-473) issued.

    Restored.
    Rebuilt at Oxnard, CA.

    3 August 1991

    To David A. Hughes, Keller, TX with new c/r N5490N.

    Operated by Vintage Flying Museum, Fort Worth Meacham Airport/Meacham Field, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.
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    16 May 2010


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: At the Vintage Flying Museum - Fort Worth - Meacham FieldStinson AT-19 N5490N painted in RAF markings and coded 9. This was previously operated by the UK forces as FB745,

    1 January 2018

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5490N (V77, 77-473) issued.

    26 April 2024


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Fort Worth - Meacham Field, TX, USA
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Daniel Cordell
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