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    Airframe Family: Vultee BT-13/BT-15/SNV Valiant
    Latest Model:BT-15 Valiant
    Last Military Serial:41-22397 USAAF
    Construction Number:74-6475
    Last Civil Registration:N128MW
    Compressed ID:Vultee BT-15 sn 41-22397 USAAF cn 7...
    Latest Owner or Location:Legacy Flight Museum, Rexburg, ID

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    Dates

    Event

    1942

    Constructed as a BT-13A.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-22397.

    Converted to a BT-15.

    1 May 1969

    Certificate of airworthiness for N128M (BT-15, 6475) issued.

    By 1971

    To Philip Boyle, San Francisco, CA with new c/r N128M.

    1972


    Photographer: Janis Mackintosh Collection
    Notes: Frank McIntosh and Ed Hand above Sonoma, CA.

    1972

    By 1978

    To Leopold C. Lacoste, Houma, LA keeping c/r N128M.

    5 February 1984

    To Daniel Ray Wallace, Seminole, OK keeping c/r N128M.

    31 March 1988

    To Daniel Ray Wallace, Seminole, OK with new c/r N128MW.

    12 January 2007

    To Bryans Machine Shop LLP, Big Timber, MT keeping c/r N128MW.

    Based at Big Timber Airport, Big Timber, MT.
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    19 January 2024

    To unknown owner with c/r N128MW.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Rexburg, ID.

    28 February 2024

    To Legacy Flight Museum, Rexburg, ID keeping c/r N128MW.
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