Model(s):
  AT-6D Texan
  T-6G Texan
Name: None
Status: Unknown
Last info: 2002

History:
Delivered to L'Armée de l'Air as 114707, 19??.
Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis, LaFerte-Alais, France, 1979.
Reported derelict by 1990.
Built by North American Aviation Inc, Dallas, TX, 1942-1943.
- Allocated CN: 88-14602.
Delivered to United States Army Air Force as AT-6D/42-44514, August 10, 1943.
- Allocated to Army Air Force Advanced Pilot School, Napier Army Air Field, Dothan, AL.
- Transferred to Army Air Force Advanced Pilot School (Fighter Transition Unit) Craig Field, Selma, AL, November 1944.
- Stored with 4186th AAF Base Unit (Army Material Command) at Independence Field, Kansas, February 1946.
- Stored at San Antonio Air Material Center, Kelly Air Force Base, TX, June 1947.
- Dropped from USAF inventory and returned to North American Aviation Inc, Columbus, OH, March 1952 North American Aviation Inc, Columbus, OH, March 1952.
- Remanufactured as T-6G.
Delivered to USAF as T-6G/51-14700, June 11, 1952.
- Allocated to 3301st Pilot Training (Contract) Squadron (Air Training Command) Columbus AFB, MO.
- Transferred to 3301st Pilot Training (Contract) Squadron (Air Training Command) Moore AFB, TX, May 1955.
- Transferred to 3040th Aircraft Storage Squadron (Air Material Command) Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Centre (MASDC later AMARC) Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, July 1955.
- Stored.
- Dropped from inventory and transferred to Mutual Defence Assistance Program (MDAP), January 1957.
Delivered to French Air Force (L'Armée de l'Air), January 22, 1957.
- Bought for $2,000.
- Shipped to France 1957-1958.
- Modified as ground attack variant 'Tomcat'.
- Allocated to 5th Air Region, 4/72 Squadron (Escadrille d'Aviation Legere D'Appui) - Ground Support Light Aviation Command- later the (Escadrilles de Reserve d'Aviation Legere d'Appui - ERALA) Tactical Light Aviation Reserve Squadron, Tiaret, Algeria, 1957-1958.
- On combat duties during French/Algerian War as Aircraft number '114700' and Counter-Insurgency (COIN) operations, 1958.
- Dropped by French Air Force to 'Service des Domaines', June 1965 - Possibly saw service in Morocco or Tunisia
Spotted at Le Ferte Alais, Paris, 1979
Used in Steven Spielberg Film 'Empire of the Sun', 1984.
Aces High Ltd, North Weald, Essex, UK, 1985.
- Still in Japanese markings.
Ken Fern, Patrick Chiswick, circa 1990.
To Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire, UK, October 2001-2002.

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