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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:SNJ-7 Texan
    Last Military Serial:112303 USN
    Construction Number:121-43157
    Last Civil Registration:N4133A
    Compressed ID:NA SNJ-7 sn 112303 USN cn 121-43157...
    Latest Owner or Location:Walter Soplata Aviation Collection, Newbury, Cleveland, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AT-6F-NT by North American at Dallas, Texas, USA.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-82435.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 112303 as a SNJ-6.

    Converted to a SNJ-7.

    February 1958

    To unknown owner with c/r N4133A.
    Spotted at Litchfield NAS, AZ, with civil registration hand-painted.

    From By 1963 to By 1970

    To Howard D. Harper, Glen Rock, NJ keeping c/r N4133A.

    14 January 1977

    Civil registration, N4133A, cancelled.

    To Walter Soplata Aviation Collection, Newbury, Cleveland, OH.
    Only the wreckage from a crash survives here.
    View the Location Dossier


    Photographer: Phil Branagan

    1979


    Photographer: Roy F. Cochrun
    Notes: Source: http://www.royfc.com/albums/non_ru/museums/museum/ohio/soplata/index.html

    1979


    Photographer: Roy F. Cochrun
    Notes: Source: http://www.royfc.com/albums/non_ru/museums/museum/ohio/soplata/index.html

    4 May 2010


    Photographer: John Bennett

    4 June 2012

    Civil registration, N4133A, cancelled.
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     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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