TEXAN/51-14706
Serial #: 51-14706
Construction #: 182-393
Civil Registration:
N6520
Construction #: 182-393
Civil Registration:
N6520
Model:
T-6G Texan
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 1969
T-6G Texan
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 1969
History:
Delivered to the United States Air Force as 51-14679.
Delivered to the United States Air Force as 51-14679.
- BOC: June 3, 1952.
- SOC: 1957.
- Assigned to the 3301st Training Squadron, Columbus AFB, MS.
- Transferred to the 3301st Pilot Training Squadron, Columbus AFB, MS, June 27, 1952.
- Damaged while parked when T-6G Texan/51-14689 collided with it while taxying at Columbus AFB, MS, August 18, 1952
- Transferred to Sacramento Air Materiel Area (SMAAR), McClellan AFB, CA.
- Moved to San Francisco Port of Embarkation, for shipment to Japan.
- BOC: November 12, 1957.
- SOC: October 1968.
- Stored at Oita Airport, Oita Prefecture, Japan, November 1968.
- Registered as N6520, 1969.
- Rebuilt as flying Nakajima B5N Kate Replica for movie Tora! Tora! Tora!
, 1969.
- Flown in the opening credits and in the practice runs past the Geisha Girls.
- Rebuilt by C. Itoh Aircraft Maintenance Co, Tokyo-Chofu.
- One of six built.
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Manfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2020.
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Manfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2020.
Photo Source(s):
None.
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