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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:SNJ-5C Texan
    Last Military Serial:91005 USN
    Construction Number:88-22866
    Last Civil Registration:N333SU
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, Michigan

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AT-6D (NA-121).

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-81219.
    Transferred directly to the Navy.

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 91005.

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

    By February 1962

    To unknown owner with c/r N7806B.

    28 February 1962

    Certificate of airworthiness for N7806B (SNJ-5, 91005) issued.

    1963

    To Roland J. Harrington, Abbeville, LA keeping c/r N7806B.

    1963

    To T. F. Longcrier, Little Rock, AR keeping c/r N7806B.

    1966

    To Green Bay Aviation, Green Bay, WI keeping c/r N7806B.

    1967

    To Robert Miller, Leland, IL keeping c/r N7806B.

    4 August 1968

    Involved in an incident.
    Summarized NTSB narrative from report number CHI69D0259: There were no fatalities. Incident occurred at 11:00 hours. The damage was substantial. Incident occurred at the Sandwich Airport, Sandwich, IL. Undershot while on final approach to land. Collided with a fence during a landing go-around. Report remarks include: Barbed wire caught in left gear.
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    1969

    To Courtesy Aircraft Ltd, Loves Park, IL keeping c/r N7806B.

    To Eugene Glenn, Mesa, AZ keeping c/r N7806B.

    1976

    To Susanne D. Parish, Hickory Corners, MI with new c/r N141SP.

    July 1977

    To Susanne Parish/Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Portage, MI with new c/r N333SU.

    Based at Air Zoo, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
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    Markings Applied: 1
    Marked as aircraft in a training squadron based at Pensacola, FL.

    22 July 1987


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    19 July 1995


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

    17 July 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

    18 January 2018

    Civil registration, N333SU, cancelled.

    To Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
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    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
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    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Transportation Safety Board
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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