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AT-6 TEXAN/42-86053
AT-6 TEXAN/42-86053
Serial #: 42-86053
Construction #: 88-17834
Civil Registration:
  N7417C
  N117R
  N700TS
Model(s):
  AT-6D Texan
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2021
History:
Manufactured by North American Aviation, Dallas TX.
Delivered to the United States Army Air Force as 42-86053.
  • BOC: September 12, 1944.
  • SOC: September 1955.
  • Assigned to o 3024th AAF Base Unit (Pilot School, Air Training Command), Marana AAF, AZ, September 1944.
  • Transferred to 140th AAFBU (First Air Force), Moody AAF GA, December 1944
  • Transferred to 3017th AAFBU (ATC), Hobbs AAF TX, September 1945
  • Transferred to 3028th AAFBU (ATC), Luke AAF NM (deployment Ajo AAF AZ), October 1945
  • Transferred to 2225th AAFBU (ATC), Moody AAF, March 1945
  • Transferred to 4168th AAF Base Unit (Air materiel Command), South Plains AAF TX (storage), June 1946
  • Transferred to 4121st AFBU (AMC), Kelly AFB TX (storage), April 1947
  • Transferred to 2533rd AFBU (ATC), Goodfellow AFB TX, January 1948
  • Transferred to 3545th Basic Pilot Training Wing (ATC), Goodfellow AFB, June 1950
  • Transferred to 3300th Training Squadron (ATC), Greenville AFB SC, May 1951
  • Transferred to 3585th Pilot Training Wing (ATC), San Marcos AFB TX, June 1952
  • Transferred to 87th Air Base Squadron (Air Defense Command), Geiger AFB WA, July 1952
  • Transferred to 4702nd Air Defense Wing (ADC), Geiger AFB, December 1952
  • Transferred to 530th Air Defense Group (ADC), Geiger AFB, August 1953
  • Transferred to 3040th Aircraft Storage and Disposition Squadron (AMC), Davis-Monthan AFB AZ, January 1954
  • Dropped from inventory as surplus, September 1955
William R. Gibbs, Wilmington, DE, 1963-1964.
  • Registered as N7417C.
Stephen J. Roberts, Newark, DE, 1966.
  • Registered as N117R.
Peter D. Von Raits, New York, NY, 1969-1970.
Stephen J. Roberts, Newark, DE, 1972-1986.
Richard T. Neil, Newark, DE, April 1991-1995.
Bogart Wings Inc, Wilmington, DE, May 27, 1998-2005.
  • Flown as Naughty Nurse II.
Tom Solano, St Augustine, Fl August 3, 2018-2021
  • Registered as N700TS
AT-6 TEXAN/42-86053

AT-6 TEXAN/42-86053

AT-6 TEXAN/42-86053
Source(s):
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Federal Aviation Administration.
Photo Source(s):
Jeffrey R. Funk.
Tom Solano

Research Assistance:
Tom Solano
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