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    Airframe Family: North American T-28 Trojan / Fennec / Nomad
    Latest Model:T-28C Trojan
    Last Military Serial:140661 USN
    Construction Number:226-238
    Last Civil Registration:N661NA
    Compressed ID:NA T-28C sn 140661 USN cn 226-238 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Valkyrieaero Llc, Idaho Springs, CO

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    Dates

    Event

    1957

    Constructed as a T-28C.

    17 May 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 140661.

    Transferred to Training Squadron 27 (VT-27), NAS Corpus Christi, TX.
    Operated with markings: D-715

    June 1967

    Transferred to NAS Pensacola, FL.
    Assigned here for overhaul.

    July 1967

    Transferred to Training Squadron 27 (VT-27), NAS Corpus Christi, TX.

    16 January 1981

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    From January 1981 to After 1984

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    15 October 1982


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1982 photo at National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, FL of North American T-28C Trojan

    October 1985

    To Airplane Sales International, Beverly Hills, CA with new c/r N661NA.

    From 1988 to 1992

    To King City Aviation Inc, King City, CA keeping c/r N661NA.

    1993

    To Herbert R. Baker/Baker Restorations/Baker Co, West Bend, WI keeping c/r N661NA.
    Purchased dismantled, incomplete.

    From 1993 to April 1996

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: Ditto, V-661
    Restored at West Bend, WI.

    28 March 1996

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX661NA (T-28C, 140661) issued.

    24 April 1996

    First post-restoration Flight.

    28 June 1996

    To Baker Company Inc, Bella Vista, AR keeping c/r N661NA.

    Based at West Bend Municipal Airport, West Bend, WI.
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    7 July 2004


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA

    28 March 2009


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

    28 March 2009


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

    28 July 2009


    Photographer: Todd Royer
    Notes: EAA Airventure 2009

    16 July 2015

    To Baker Company Inc, West Bend, WI keeping c/r N661NA.

    28 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2017 EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh

    4 April 2018

    To Baker Co Inc, Bella Vista, AR keeping c/r N661NA.

    11 February 2019

    To Valkyrieaero Llc, Idaho Springs, CO keeping c/r N661NA.

    10 September 2022


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At 2022 Trojan Gathering, Mid-Way Regional Airport, Midlothian, TX. Now named Valkyrie.

    10 September 2022


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At 2022 Trojan Gathering, Mid-Way Regional Airport, Midlothian, TX. Now named Valkyrie.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
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     Glenn Chatfield
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