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    Airframe Family: Vultee BT-13/BT-15/SNV Valiant
    Latest Model:BT-13 Valiant
    Last Military Serial:40-0917 USAAC
    Construction Number:54A-308
    Last Civil Registration:N63163
    Compressed ID:Vultee BT-13 sn 40-0917 USAAC cn 54...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hubert Mars

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1940

    Constructed as a BT-13.

    Circa 1940

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Corps with s/n 40-0917.

    1949

    To Ace Flying Service, Salem, OR with new c/r N63163.

    11 June 1949


    Photographer: Robert L.Furniss
    Notes: BT-13 outfitted for spraying on western spruce budworm control project. Mt. Hood area, Oregon (courtesy of USDA Forest Service Archives)

    November 1962

    To Floyd M. Hayes, North Hollywood, CA keeping c/r N63163.

    By 1968

    To Elvin Tory Johnson, Independence, keeping c/r N63163.

    1968


    Photographer: Neil Aird
    Notes: At Mesa Falcon Field

    1970

    Appeared in the Movie - Tora, Tora, Tora.

    By 1978

    To John J. Stokes, San Marcos, CA keeping c/r N63163.

    6 October 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Vultee modified to represent Japanese Val and flown by the Confederate Air Force at their Airshow at Harlingen, Texas in 1978.

    8 May 1990

    To Gene F. Fisher, Boiling Springs, PE keeping c/r N63163.
    Vultee BT-13/Aichi D3A Replica painted as AII-252 for the Airshow circuit.

    November 1991


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA

    1992


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA.

    20 January 1995

    Civil registration, N63163, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Yvetot.

    To Hubert Mars.
    Awaiting restoration at La Ferte Alais, France.

    2020


    Photographer: Hubert Mars
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