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    Airframe Family: Fairchild M62 / PT-19 / PT-23 / PT-26 Cornell
    Latest Model:Cornell II
    Last Military Serial:10619 RCAF
    Construction Number:FC120
    Last Civil Registration:N619PT
    Compressed ID:Fairchild Cornell II sn 10619 RCAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:James H. Kirk, Leavenworth, KS

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Cornell II.

    19 March 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 10619.

    19 March 1943

    Transferred to No. 4 Training Command.

    March 1943

    Transferred to No. 34 Elementary Flying Training School, Assiniboia, SK.

    28 May 1943

    Damaged.
    Category C10 damage suffered in taxiing accident.

    July 1943

    Damaged.
    Taxiing accident.

    22 July 1944

    Assigned to No. 34 Elementary Flying Training School, Assiniboia, SK for storage.

    1 December 1944

    Assigned to No. 2 Air Command for storage.
    Still stored at Assiniboia, SK.

    Assigned to No. 202 Reserve Equipment Maintenance Satellite, Mossbank, SK for storage.

    7 July 1945

    Noted as frozen series.

    8 April 1946

    Assigned to No. 2 Reserve Equipment Maintenance Unit, REMS Mossbank, SK for storage.
    Pending disposal.

    2 December 1946

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Canadian Air Force.

    December 1946

    To War Assets Corporation.
    For disposal.

    December 1946

    To unknown owner.
    Purchased from War Assets Corporation.

    By 1958

    To unknown owner with c/r N2039A.

    6 January 1958

    Certificate of airworthiness for N2039A (M-62A-4, FC-120) issued.

    Circa 1960


    Photographer: George P. Trahan, Guilford, CT
    Notes: Photo taken along the Connecticut River in Saybrook, CT, with G. Trahan as pilot.

    20 June 1981

    To Doctor L. Rodger Currie, Chelmsford, MA keeping c/r N2039A.

    Markings Applied: 22
    Marked to resemble a P-40 of the Flying Tigers.

    July 1984

    Ferry flight. Delivered to National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    Donated by Rodger Currie.
    View the Location Dossier

    21 July 1988


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    18 July 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio.

    1 January 2006

    Certificate of airworthiness for N2039A (M-62A-4, FC-120) issued.

    1 January 2006

    To unknown owner with c/r N2039A.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Hyannis Port, MA.

    22 May 2007

    Civil registration, N2039A, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Hyannis Port, MA.

    By 2013

    Stored disassembled in the restoration hangar.

    19 April 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: In the restoration hangar

    7 June 2022

    To James H. Kirk, Leavenworth, KS with new c/r N619PT.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Canadian Military Aircraft Serial Numbers by Brian Walker
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Warbird Information Exchange by Scott Rose
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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