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Serial #: 42-85999
Construction #:
  88-17780
Civil Registration:
  N7130C
Model(s):
  AT-6D
  SNJ-5
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2002
   History:
Built for USAAC 42-85999, 19??.
Delivered to U.S. Navy as SNJ-5/BuNo. 90712, 19??.
Robert van Wimwegan, Phoenix, AZ, 1963.
- Registered as N7130C.
Kenneth C. Holaday, Tempe, AZ, 1963-1964.
Richard T. Gregory, Phoenix, AZ, 1966.
20th Century Fox Film Corp, Hollywood, CA, 1968-1971.
- Converted to Kate replica for movie Tora Tora Tora, Long Beach, CA, 1968.
- Stored, Long Beach, CA, 1969-1971.
- Sold at auction, Feb. 1971.
Johan M. Larsen, Minneapolis, MN, Feb. 1971-1977.
Ingemar E. Holm, Bloomington, MN, July 1978-1995.
- Loaned to Minnesota Air & Space Museum, Minneapolis, MN, 1988.
-- Displayed as Japanese Kate.
Charles P. McClure, Boerne, TX, Jan. 6, 1998-2002.
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Federal Aviation Administration, www.faa.gov, Washington D.C., 2002.
 Photo Source(s):
Jason Knutson via Mike R. Henniger.