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    Airframe Family: Fairchild M62 / PT-19 / PT-23 / PT-26 Cornell
    Latest Model:PT-19A-FA Cornell
    Last Military Serial:41-14675 USAAF
    Construction Number:T41-0613
    Last Civil Registration:N53963
    Compressed ID:Fairchild PT-19A-FA sn 41-14675 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PT-19A-FA by Fairchild at Hagerstown, MD, USA.

    Circa 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-14675.

    27 October 1944

    To Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), Gibbs Field.

    17 July 1971

    To Tucson Air Museum, Tucson, AZ with new c/r N53963.

    Based at Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    23 September 1974


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: at Pima County Museum

    8 July 1977

    Civil registration, N53963, cancelled.

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Markings Applied: 75, ED
    Displayed in the markings of the 301st Elementary Flying Training Detachment, Corsicana Field, Texas in 1941.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Credits
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Pima Air and Space Museum
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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