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    Airframe Family: Vultee BT-13/BT-15/SNV Valiant
    Latest Model:BT-13A Valiant
    Last Military Serial:41-23075 USAAF
    Construction Number:7722
    Last Civil Registration:N59961
    Compressed ID:Vultee BT-13A sn 41-23075 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Rene J. Vercruyssen, Durham, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a BT-13A.

    Circa 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-23075.

    9 August 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N59961 (BT-13A, 7722) issued.

    4 November 1983

    To Antique Aircraft Restorations Inc, Dover, DE with new c/r N59961.

    Circa 1995


    Photographer: Fargo Air Museum Archives

    13 May 2002

    To Conundrum Aviation Inc, Dover, DE keeping c/r N59961.

    Based at The Florida Keys Marathon Airport (MTH), Marathon, FL.
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    Markings Applied: 123

    7 April 2006


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Leeward Air Ranch, Ocala FL

    1 January 2009

    Certificate of airworthiness for N59961 (BT-13A, 7722) issued.

    19 November 2010

    To Conundrum Aviation Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N59961.

    By 29 March 2012

    Markings Applied: 213, 123075

    29 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2012 Sun N Fun

    4 November 2012


    Photographer: Hugh Dodson
    Notes: At Wings over Homestead

    15 January 2013

    To Conundrum Aviation Inc, Dover, DE keeping c/r N59961.

    2 March 2016

    To Rene J. Vercruyssen, Durham, CA keeping c/r N59961.

    Based at Chico Air Museum, Chico Municipal Airport, Chico, CA.
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    2 October 2019


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Chico, CA, U.S.A.

    17 May 2022

    To Rene J. Vercruyssen, Durham, CA keeping c/r N59961.

    7 September 2024


    Photographer: Ed Bailiff
    Notes: WwAM flyin
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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