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    Airframe Family: Douglas SB2D/BTD Destroyer
    Latest Model:BTD-1
    Last Military Serial:04959 USN
    Construction Number:1891
    Last Civil Registration:N7035U
    Compressed ID:Douglas BTD-1 sn 04959 USN cn 1891...
    Latest Owner or Location:Museum of Flight, Rome Airport, Rome, Georgia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a BTD-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 04959.
    Assumed the BuNo of the uncompleted SB2D-1.

    From 1965 to 1975

    Assigned to NAS Norfolk for storage.

    From 1975 to 2001

    To National Museum of Naval Aviation, NAS Pensacola, FL.

    By September 1987

    Loaned to Florence Air and Missile Museum, Florence, SC.
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    27 May 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    From 19 November 1993 to 2016

    To National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, FL with new c/r N7035U.

    From October 1998 to 2006

    Loaned to National Warplane Museum, Elmira, Horseheads, NY.
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    By October 1998

    Loaned to Wings of Eagles Discovery Center, Elmira, Horseheads, NY.
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    19 August 1999

    Civil registration, N7035U, cancelled.

    3 May 2000


    Photographer: Tom Robert Collection
    Notes: Photographed at Elmira, NY.

    20 August 2014


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
    Notes: This unusual aircraft is undergoing restoration; she has since been moved indoors

    June 2015

    To Museum of Flight, Rome Airport, Rome, GA.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2013 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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