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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:SNJ-2 Texan
    Last Military Serial:2553 USN
    Construction Number:79-3988
    Last Civil Registration:N58224
    Compressed ID:NA SNJ-2 sn 2553 USN cn 79-3988 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Warbird Services Llc, Las Vegas, NV

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SNJ-2.

    1940

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 2553.

    1946

    To Aviation Consultants, Inc, PA with new c/r NC58244.

    1946

    To Reading Batteries Inc, Reading PA keeping c/r NC58244.

    1963

    To Manvel Corp, Kansas City MO with new c/r N58244.

    1966

    To Stinis Air Service/Skytypers Inc, keeping c/r N58244.
    Markings added: 1

    22 June 1966

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR58224 (AT-6, 2553) issued.

    Circa March 1983


    Photographer: Larry Johnson

    June 1983


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Lewis-Lockport Airport (now Lewis University Airport), Romeoville, IL

    31 January 1987

    To SNJ-2 Corp, Farmingdale, NY with new c/r N58224.

    20 April 1999

    To SNJ-2 Corp, Flushing, NY keeping c/r N58224.

    Based at Skytypers East Coast Team, Republic Airport, East Farmingdale, Long Island, NY.
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    12 May 2018


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: MacDill Airfest, MacDill AFB, Tampa, FL.

    17 May 2019

    Certificate of airworthiness for N58224 (AT-6, 2553) issued.

    4 September 2024

    To Warbird Services Llc, Las Vegas, NV keeping c/r N58224.
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     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
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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