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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:SNJ-5 Texan
    Last Military Serial:90623 USN
    Construction Number:88-17551
    Last Civil Registration:N89013
    Compressed ID:NA SNJ-5 sn 90623 USN cn 88-17551 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Northeast Philadelphia Airport (PNE), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AT-6D.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-85770.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 90623 as a SNJ-5.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Japanese Marine Self Defence Force.

    From October 1977 to 1979

    To Warbirds West/Dennis G. Buehn, Compton, CA with new c/r N89013.

    Recovered.
    Retrieved from Japan.

    Restored.

    27 July 1978

    Certificate of airworthiness for N89013 (SNJ-5, 90623) issued.

    Markings Applied: 90623
    Finished in USN markings.

    From 25 October 1979 to 2005

    To James E. Beasley, Philadelphia, PA keeping c/r N89013.

    From 12 September 1983 to 18 September 1983

    Raced as #23.
    Competed at the National Championship Air Races in the T-6 class. The primary pilot was Richard Yersak. Qualified in 17th place with an average speed of 189.00 mph.

    By August 1986


    Photographer: William B State via Bill Larkin Collection

    20 May 1998

    To James E. Beasley Jr, Villanova, PA keeping c/r N89013.

    18 August 2005

    To JEB SNJ Llc/James E. Beasley, Philadelphia, PA keeping c/r N89013.

    Based at Chester County Airport, Coatesville, PA.
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    To Northeast Philadelphia Airport (PNE), Philadelphia, PA.
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    Markings Applied: 23, USS CARL VINSON, NAVY VC-10, GTMO BAY, JB, 906-23

    29 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Sun n Fun at Lakeland, Florida

    Markings Applied: JB-23
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Reno Air Racing Association (National Championship Air Races)
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
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