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    Airframe Family: Douglas BT2D/AD/A-1 Skyraider
    Latest Model:A-1E Skyraider
    Last Military Serial:135332 SVNAF
    Construction Number:9976
    Last Civil Registration:N32612
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-1E sn 135332 SVNAF cn 997...
    Latest Owner or Location:Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Paul Garber Facility, Silver Hill, Maryland

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AD-6 by Douglas at El Segundo, California, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 135332.
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    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 135332.
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    Redesignated as A-1H.

    Redesignated as A-1H.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 135332.
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    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South Vietnam Air Force.

    Civil registration N32612 reserved but not taken up.

    Civil registration N32612 reserved but not taken up.

    To unknown owner with c/r N32612.

    11 November 1982

    Civil registration N32612 reserved.
    Status (N32612): Civil registration reserved.

    Constructed as an A-1E by Douglas at El Segundo, California, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 135332.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South Vietnam Air Force with s/n 135332.

    To unknown owner with c/r N39148.

    To unknown owner with c/r N39148.

    26 April 1983

    To Yesterdays Air Force/David C. Tallichet, Long Beach, CA with new c/r N39148.
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    26 April 1983

    To Yesterdays Air Force, Long Beach, CA keeping c/r N39148.

    To Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Paul Garber Facility, Silver Hill, MD.
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    10 March 2011

    Civil registration, N32612, cancelled.

    To unknown owner with c/r N39148.

    Transferred to a museum.

    10 March 2011

    To unknown owner with c/r N32612 (AD-6, 9976).

    10 March 2011

    Civil registration, N32612, cancelled.

    11 June 2013

    Civil registration, N39148, cancelled.

    Transferred to a museum.
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