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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:SNJ-6 Texan
    Last Military Serial:112121 USN
    Construction Number:121-42954
    Last Civil Registration:N61JD
    Compressed ID:NA SNJ-6 sn 112121 USN cn 121-42954...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hickory Aviation Museum, Hickory Regional Airport, Hickory, North Carolina

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    Dates

    Event

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

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-82232.
    Not TOS. Ordered as such but diverted to USN.

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 112121 as a SNJ-6.

    By 1961

    Transferred to Civil Air Patrol.

    By May 1961


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: Photographed at NAS Los Alamitos.

    1963

    To Robert W. OHara, San Fernando, CA with new c/r N2856G.

    From April 1977 to 1981

    To Lesley L. Crowder, Sunland, CA keeping c/r N2856G.

    Restored.
    Restored.

    May 1981

    To Lesley L. Crowder, Sunland, CA with new c/r N61JD.

    From 1991 to 2020

    To NMNA, NAS Pensacola, FL.

    Markings Applied: US Navy, 112121

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    30 March 1993

    To National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, FL keeping c/r N61JD.

    18 August 1999

    Civil registration, N61JD, cancelled.

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    3 June 2022

    Loaned to Hickory Aviation Museum, Hickory Regional Airport, Hickory, NC.
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    26 January 2023


    Photographer: Mark Benedict
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     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
    Individual Contributors
     Mark Benedict
    Glenn Chatfield
    Matt Maranto
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