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    Airframe Family: Fairchild M62 / PT-19 / PT-23 / PT-26 Cornell
    Latest Model:PT-19A-FA Cornell
    Last Military Serial:41-14876 USAAF
    Construction Number:T41-0831
    Last Civil Registration:N54508
    Compressed ID:Fairchild PT-19A-FA sn 41-14876 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Rare Aircraft Ltd, Faribault, MN

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    Dates

    Event

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

    1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-14876.

    Transferred to 2nd Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment (Primary), Ontario, CA.

    By April 1944

    Transferred to 309th Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment, Sikeston, MO.

    18 April 1944

    Damaged.
    Landing accident at Bertrand, FL, pilot Robert G. Brewer.

    1 November 1944

    Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation, West Helena, AR.

    By 6 June 1961

    To unknown owner with c/r N54508 (M-62A, T41-831).

    6 June 1961

    Certificate of airworthiness for N54508 (M-62A, T41-831) issued.

    By 1964

    To Gilbert Hines, Gorin, MI keeping c/r N54508.

    8 September 1979


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Galesburg Municipal

    From 21 January 1982 to After 1992

    To Gilbert C. Hines, Gorin, MI keeping c/r N54508.

    10 December 2002

    To Violette Ahlberg, Keokuk, IA keeping c/r N54508.

    23 July 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Keokuk, IA

    23 July 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Keokuk, IA

    2 July 2013

    To Ahlberg Violette, Keokuk, IA keeping c/r N54508.

    16 May 2014

    To Scott T. Delawder, Galesburg, IL keeping c/r N54508.

    August 2014


    Photographer: David Miller
    Notes: Attending the 2014 Antique Airplane Association / Air Power Museum Invitational Fly-In at Antique Airfield, near Blakesburg

    26 September 2015


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Keokuk, IA

    2 January 2017

    To Scott T. Delawder, Galesburg, IL keeping c/r N54508.

    12 September 2019

    To Rare Aircraft Ltd, Faribault, MN keeping c/r N54508.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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    Terry Fletcher
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