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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:SNJ-5C Texan
    Last Military Serial:0467 ARA
    Construction Number:88-14827
    Compressed ID:NA SNJ-5C sn 0467 ARA cn 88-14827
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SNJ-5.

    16 September 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 51849.

    16 September 1943

    Transferred to NAS Pensacola, FL.

    1943

    Converted to a SNJ-5C.
    Modified as a deck landing trainer with tail hook arrester gear.

    Transferred to Training Squadron Six (VN-6 to VT-6), NAAS Corry Field, FL.

    Transferred to Training Squadron 4 (VT-4), Saufley Field NAAS, Pensacola, FL.

    Transferred to USS Kearsarge (CV-33).

    Transferred to Fleet Air Service Squadron (FASRON) 2, NAS Quonset Point, RI.

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 95 (VA-95), VA-95, NAAS Charlestown, RI.

    18 April 1959

    Transported by air.
    Arrived in Argentina, Mutual Defense Assistance Program (MDAP) sales to Argentinean Government.

    11 June 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armada de la Republica Argentina with s/n 0467.

    June 1969

    Transferred to Naval Air Fighter Attack Squadron No. 2, Naval Air Base Comandante Espora, Bahia Blanca.
    Operated with markings: 2A-309

    Transferred to General Purpose Naval Air Squadron of the Aeronaval Squadron No. 2.
    Operated with markings: 2-G-109

    Transferred to General Purpose Naval Air Squadron of the Aeronaval Squadron No. 4.
    Operated with markings: 4-G-109

    Markings Applied: 4-G-79

    1971

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Armada de la Republica Argentina.
    The last AT-6 / SNJ to fly in the Argentine Navy.

    1971

    Displayed at the airport in Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego, at the entrance to the Naval Air Station Hermes Quijada.

    1982

    To unknown owner.
    Sold abroad.

    1984

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    1990

    Placed on display.

    10 November 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Pensacola Air Show

    By September 2003

    Markings Applied: B, A/132

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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    Mike Henniger
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