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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:T-6G Texan
    Last Military Serial:49-3198 USAF
    Last Civil Registration:N5188V
    Compressed ID:NA T-6G sn 49-3198 USAF cr N5188V
    Latest Owner or Location:Aircraft Guaranty Corp Trustee, Onalaska, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AT-6.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force.

    Circa 1951

    Remanufactured as a T-6G.
    New construction number, 168-302, assigned to the airframe.

    Circa 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 49-3198.

    By February 1952

    Transferred to 3545th Maintenance Squadron, 3545th Maintenance (and) Support Group, Goodfellow AFB, TX.

    4 February 1952

    Damaged.
    Ground accident with fire at Goodfellow AFB; pilot Wallace E. Arnold.

    By 26 March 1960

    To unknown owner with c/r N5188V (T-6G,).

    26 March 1960

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5188V (T-6G, 49-3198) issued.

    1963

    To George Mustin, Menlo Park, CA keeping c/r N5188V.

    From 1963 to 1972

    To Warren L. Woods, San Jose, CA keeping c/r N5188V.

    From 1976 to 1989

    To Walter R. Patten, Sacramento, CA keeping c/r N5188V.

    November 1978


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Sacramento, CA.

    From 1979 to 1989

    Withdrawn from use.
    Open storage Sacramento-Executive.

    From July 1989 to 1995

    To Scott Main/Air Share Inc, Palo Alto, CA with new c/r N5188V.

    July 1989

    Ferry flight.
    Delivered to Palo Alto.

    From 1989 to 1991

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: 96, 32421
    Restored as USAAF AT-6C 41-32421.
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    30 July 1991


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Oshkosh, WI

    7 November 1997

    To David A. Thompsen, Bourbonnais, IL keeping c/r N5188V.

    23 December 2005

    To unknown owner with c/r N5188V.
    Sale reported to a new owner in None, OK.

    8 December 2006

    To Aircraft Guaranty Holdings Trust Llc Trustee, Houston, TX keeping c/r N5188V.
    Based in Sweden.

    21 May 2009


    Photographer: Kenneth Goransson
    Notes: Ljungbyhed, Sweden

    1 September 2011

    To Aircraft Guaranty Corp Trustee, Onalaska, TX keeping c/r N5188V.
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