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Airframe Family:	Northrop SBD Dauntless / A-24 Banshee
Latest Model:	SBD-4 Dauntless
Last Military Serial:	10575 USN
Construction Number:	2565
Latest Owner or Location:	Concourse A, Chicago Midway Airport, Chicago, Illinois

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Dates		Event
		Constructed as a SBD-4 by Douglas.
Circa 1943		Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 10575.
14 September 1944		Crashed. Ditched in Lake Michigan after takeoff from USS Sable, aircraft sank.
April 1989		Aircraft located on lake bottom by A (and) T Recovery Inc, Chicago.
26 August 1991		Recovered. Recovered by A (and) T Recovery.
1991		In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL. View the Location Dossier
From 1991 to 1996		Restored. Restored at Jacksonville, FL as an A-24 for the National Museum of the USAF.
By July 1996		Loaned to National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH. View the Location Dossier
Circa 1996		Markings Applied: 115786 Marked as A-24 41-15786 which crash-landed on Java on February 20, 1942.
13 August 1998		Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
13 August 1998		Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
		This aircraft was replaced by an actual A-24B, 42-54582, with the same markings, in 2004.
By June 2004		Markings Applied: B3 Repainted in US Navy colors.
August 2004		Loaned to Concourse A, Chicago Midway Airport, Chicago, IL. Hanging in the airport terminal. View the Location Dossier

		This airframe dossier is based on unreviewed imported data. If you can verify the documented history or add to it with additional text and/or photos please feel free to do so by using the upload tool and the history editor.

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 2010 by Andy Marden
U.S. Military Out of Service 2013 by Andy Marden

Internet Sources
Aerodata Quantum+
United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
Warbird Information Exchange by Scott Rose
Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall

Individual Contributors
John Bennett
Glenn Chatfield
Mike Henniger

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