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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:T-6G Texan
    Last Military Serial:114429 ALA
    Construction Number:182-116
    Last Civil Registration:N729AM
    Compressed ID:NA T-6G sn 114429 ALA cn 182-116 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Carl A. Best, Plano, TX

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    Constructed as an AT-6.
    Your Assistance is Needed: Originally built as an AT-6 variant. Do you know the original AT-6 identification of this airframe? If so please share with Aerial Visuals.
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    Remanufactured as a T-6G.

    Circa 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-14429.

    1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armee de l Air with s/n 114429.

    11 February 1976

    Put up for disposal by French AF.

    Sold into the USA.

    From Unknown to 1979

    Placed in storage.

    August 1979

    Civil registration N896WW reserved.

    3 April 1980

    Certificate of airworthiness for N729AM (T-6G, 5114429) issued.

    By 1986

    To Leslie R. Coffman, West Monroe, LA with new c/r N729AM.

    By August 1986


    Photographer: William B Slate

    From January 1988 to By 1995

    To Ben A. Cunningham, Jackson, MS keeping c/r N729AM.

    From 7 July 1998 to By 1999

    To Southern Mechanical Plumbing, Shreveport, LA keeping c/r N729AM.

    1 January 2003

    Certificate of airworthiness for N729AM (T-6G, 5114429) issued.

    May 2005

    Based at Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas Love Field, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.
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    3 September 2006


    Photographer: Bill Kistler

    16 September 2008

    To Southern Mechanical Plumbing Inc, Shreveport, LA keeping c/r N729AM.

    8 January 2010

    To Carl A. Best, Plano, TX keeping c/r N729AM.

    5 September 2015


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At CAF Dallas, Warbirds on Parade Air Show, Lancaster, TX

    7 October 2016


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: At the Texas Chapter Fly-In at Gainesville Municipal

    10 November 2021

    To Carl A. Best, Plano, TX keeping c/r N729AM.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Bill Kistler
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