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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:AT-6A Texan
    Last Military Serial:7654 SAAF
    Construction Number:78-6587
    Last Civil Registration:N200WE
    Compressed ID:NA AT-6A sn 7654 SAAF cn 78-6587 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Richard A. Stratton, Wheatland, WY

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    Dates

    Event

    1942

    Constructed as an AT-6A.

    1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-16209.

    1942

    Transferred to 70th Air Base Squadron, McCarran Field, Las Vegas, NV.

    19 March 1942

    Damaged.
    Damaged when ground looped landing at Las Vegas Field.

    Transferred to 763rd Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Kingman Field, AZ.

    21 March 1943

    Damaged.
    Force landed in bad weatherAaseven miles north of Stockton Field, CA.

    Transferred to 3036th Base Unit (Gunnery School), Yuma Field, AZ.

    31 May 1944

    Damaged.
    Damaged when ground looped landing at Yuma Field.

    1946

    To James S. Spivey Inc, Washington DC with new c/r NC68384.

    Civil registration revised.
    Revised from NC68384.

    1952

    Civil registration, N68384, cancelled.

    8 April 1952

    Certificate of airworthiness issued.
    Export CoA.

    1952

    To Volitan Aircraft Services, Palmdale, CA.

    1952

    Remanufactured as a T-6D.

    1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South African Air Force with s/n 7654.

    9 September 1997

    To Szymanowicz Joseph, Cranesville, PA with new c/r N200WE.

    1997

    Converted to an AT-6A.
    Registered as North American-Victoria AT-6A.

    Markings Applied: 7654
    In South African Air Force markings.

    10 June 1998

    Certificate of airworthiness for N200WE (AT-6A, 78-6587) issued.

    13 July 2003

    Damaged.
    Damaged when ground looped landing, Ashtabula, OH.

    11 April 2012

    To Szymanowicz Joseph, Cranesville, PA keeping c/r N200WE.

    27 March 2015

    To Richard A. Stratton, Cheyenne, WY keeping c/r N200WE.

    21 April 2015

    To Richard A. Stratton, Wheatland, WY keeping c/r N200WE.

    11 September 2015


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Galesburg Municipal

    September 2016


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: At Galesburg Municipal

    6 September 2019


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Galesburg, IL

    8 November 2020

    To Richard A. Stratton, Wheatland, WY keeping c/r N200WE.
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