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    Airframe Family: North American T-28 Trojan / Fennec / Nomad
    Latest Model:T-28B Trojan
    Last Military Serial:137789 USN
    Construction Number:200-152
    Last Civil Registration:N52424
    Compressed ID:NA T-28B sn 137789 USN cn 200-152 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-28B.

    16 July 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 137789.

    From September 1954 to October 1955

    Transferred to Naval Air Advanced Training Command (NAATC), Naval Air Auxiliary Air Station (NAAS), Chase Field, Corpus Christi, TX.

    From October 1955 to October 1956

    Transferred to Naval Air Basic Training Command (NABTC), NAAS Saufley Field, FL.

    From October 1956 to December 1957

    Transferred to NABTC, NAAS Whiting Field, FL.

    From April 1958 to September 1958

    Transferred to Fleet All Weather Training Unit Pacific (Fawtupac), NAS North Island, CA.

    From September 1958 to February 1959

    Transferred to Fighter Squadron 121 (VF-121), NAS Miramar, CA.

    From February 1959 to 8 August 1959

    Transferred to All-Weather Attack Squadron 35 (VAAW-35), NAS North Island, CA.

    From August 1959 to December 1959

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 122 (VA-122), NAS North Island, CA.

    From December 1959 to August 1960

    Transferred to NABTC, NAAS Whiting Field, FL.

    From August 1960 to December 1960

    Transferred to NABTC, NAS Pensacola, FL.

    From December 1960 to March 1961

    Transferred to Bureau of Naval Weapons (Buweps), O (and) R NAS Pensacola, FL.

    From March 1961 to January 1964

    Transferred to Training Squadron 2 (VT-2), Whiting Field, FL.

    From April 1964 to April 1967

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 122 (VA-122), NAS Lemoore, CA.

    From April 1967 to May 1974

    Transferred to Training Squadron 3 (VT-3), NAS Whiting Field, FL.

    From August 1974 to October 1976

    Transferred to Naval Air Facility (NAF), Andrews AFB, Washington, D. C.

    From October 1976 to April 1983

    Transferred to Training Squadron 27 (VT-27), NAS Corpus Christi, TX.
    Operated with markings: D-740

    From April 1983 to August 1983

    Transferred to NAS Pensacola, FL.

    12 August 1983

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    May 1984

    To B. W. Orbiss, Inglewood, CA with new c/r N52424.
    Purchased at DOD sale.

    29 October 1984

    Certificate of airworthiness for N52424 (T-28B, 137789) issued.

    From 1986 to 1987

    To Peter A. Triolo, Garden City, KS keeping c/r N52424.
    Markings added: 341, 2W

    10 November 1987


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL

    From December 1987 to 1995

    To Robert J. Beranger, Rochester, NH keeping c/r N52424.
    Markings added: RB

    Circa 18 August 1994


    Photographer: Earl A Holmquist
    Notes: Photographed at the Wings of Eagles AS, Batavia, NY.

    19 August 1995


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Wings of Eagles Airshow at Batavia, New York.

    To Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum/Tom Reilly, Kissimmee Municipal Airport, Kissimmee, FL.
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    March 1997


    Photographer: Tom Roberts
    Notes: Photographed at the Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum, in Kissimmee, Florida.

    From 5 February 1999 to 2000

    To Deering-Edwin Llc, Hampton, NH keeping c/r N52424.

    From 23 March 2001 to 2002

    To Stevens Aircraft Sales, Boca Raton, FL keeping c/r N52424.

    From 3 June 2003 to 2006

    To Vertical Flight Services, Addison, TX keeping c/r N52424.

    2006

    To Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.
    Markings added: NJ789
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    5 April 2006


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Sun-n-Fun, Lakeland FL

    17 May 2008


    Photographer: Jay Curtiss

    29 January 2009

    To Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison, TX keeping c/r N52424.

    30 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Sun n Fun at Lakeland, Florida

    2 April 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Sun n Fun, Lakeland, Florida

    12 November 2022


    Photographer: Bastiaan Hart / www.gullwings.nl
    Notes: Found her in a sorry state outside in the rain. Still at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum.


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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall

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    Mike Henniger

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