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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:SNJ-4 Texan
    Last Military Serial:2501 FAV
    Construction Number:88-12821
    Last Civil Registration:N544NR {1}
    Compressed ID:NA SNJ-4 sn 2501 FAV cn 88-12821 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Qualitair Llc Trustee, Michelstadt

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SNJ-4.

    Circa 1949

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 49-12821.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 27485.

    1949

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea Venezolana with s/n 2501.

    Converted.

    Circa 1990

    Recovered.
    Retrieved from Venezuela and shipped to south Florida.

    26 February 1993

    To Mark L Chamlis, Tallahassee, FL with new c/r N113MC.

    8 May 2001

    To Walter H. Orth Jr, Coral Gables, FL with new c/r N544NR {1}.

    8 May 2001

    To Walter H. Orth Jr, Coral Gables, FL with new c/r N544WW.

    Contracted to Phoenix Aviation Services Inc/Vincent Tirado, Miami, FL for work on the airframe.

    From 2001 to 2011

    Restored.
    Finished to represent a T-6G Forward Air Controller of the Korean War. Completed with 30 cal machine gun pods and bomb racks with rocket launcher attachments and rockets.

    17 December 2008

    To Walter H. Orth Jr, Coral Gables, FL with new c/r N544NR {1}.

    15 November 2011

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX544NR {1} (T-6G, 88-12821) issued.

    12 June 2012


    Photographer: Vincent Tirado III
    Notes: Restored as Korean War Forward Air Controller

    12 June 2012


    Photographer: Vincent Tirad
    Notes: Notice the Night Rider artwork

    5 December 2012

    To Aircraft Guaranty Corp Trustee, Onalaska, TX keeping c/r N544NR {1}.

    Transported by ship.
    Shipped to the Czech Republic.

    Based at Letiste Mnichovo Hradiste, Hoskovice, Central Bohemian.
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    Markings Applied: LTA-821

    2 February 2023

    To Qualitair Llc Trustee, Michelstadt keeping c/r N544NR {1}.

    12 December 2023

    To unknown owner with c/r N544NR {1}.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Michelstadt.

    3 January 2024

    To Qualitair Llc Trustee, Michelstadt keeping c/r N544NR {1}.
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    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Vincent Tirado III
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