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    Airframe Family: North American T-28 Trojan / Fennec / Nomad
    Latest Model:T-28B Trojan
    Last Military Serial:140018 US
    Construction Number:219-17
    Last Civil Registration:PP-ZFE
    Compressed ID:NA T-28B sn 140018 US cn 219-17 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fernando de Arruda Botelho, Brazil

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-28B.

    Circa 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 140018.

    From 15 June 1976 to 15 March 1986

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 140018.

    15 June 1976

    Transferred to Army Airborne Special Operations Test Board, Fort Bragg, NC.

    Army Airborne Special Operations Test Board (AASOTB), was an agent tasked with testing and evaluating new parachute delivery systems and methods intended for US military use. The stable and maneuverable Trojans were ideally suited for use in camera-equipped test observation machines, and were used to record hundreds of in-flight tests prior to their early 1987 replacement in AASOTB service. (T-28 Trojan Foundatation).

    From 15 March 1986 to By 1989

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC).

    1989

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 140018.
    Returned to service with the Army keeping the same serial. Apparently aircraft remained at MASDC.

    1990

    Based at National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    1990

    Loaned to Lowry AFB, CO.
    Delivered directly to Lowry from Davis Monthan.

    By 1991

    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    From April 1996 to By 1999

    To San Tan Flying Service, Chandler, AZ with new c/r N6263T.

    By October 1996

    Spotted stored fully restored in the yard of a contractor at Davis Monthan AFB.

    October 1996

    Markings Applied: US Army 40018/018

    3 April 1999

    Certificate of airworthiness for N6263T (T-28B, 140018) issued.

    15 June 1999

    To James M. Read/JRMC Inc, Chesterton, IN with new c/r NX6263T.

    1 January 2003

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX6263T (T-28B, 140018) issued.

    26 June 2004


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Davenport, IA

    9 November 2010

    To Pegasus Aircraft Parts and Systems Inc, Miami, FL with new c/r N6263T.

    21 April 2011

    Civil registration, N6263T, cancelled.
    Exported to Brazil.

    21 April 2011

    To unknown owner with c/r N6263T.
    Sale reported to a new owner in XXX.

    By June 2011

    To Fernando de Arruda Botelho, Brazil with new c/r PP-ZFE.

    13 April 2012

    Crashed.
    Aircraft crashed in a sugarcane field, killing the pilot and passenger.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     DET 156 SOW
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Jet Photos
    T-28 Trojan Foundation
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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