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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:SNJ-5 Texan
    Last Military Serial:51789 USN
    Construction Number:88-14643
    Last Civil Registration:N5488V
    Compressed ID:NA SNJ-5 sn 51789 USN cn 88-14643 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Warbird Air Museum, Space Center Executive Airport (North East Side), Titusville, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SNJ-5.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 51789.

    7 June 1960

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5488V (SNJ-5, 51789) issued.

    15 August 1989

    To Thomas C. Payne, Leesburg, VI with new c/r N5488V.

    Markings Applied: 121, NAVY VC-10, GTMO BAY, TP

    19 May 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Andrews AFB Md Airshow

    24 June 1994

    To Paul D. Faltyn, North Tonawanda, NY keeping c/r N5488V.

    Circa 9 September 1995


    Photographer: Dr J G Handelman via Bob Trennert Collection
    Notes: Photographed at Hagerstown, MD.

    Based at Niagara Falls International Airport, Niagara Falls, NY.
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    1 January 2007

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5488V (SNJ-5, 51789) issued.

    14 April 2012

    To Mark S. Adema, Indialantic, FL keeping c/r N5488V.

    Based at Valiant Air Command Museum, Space Center Executive Airport (North East Side), Titusville, FL.
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    14 July 2013


    Photographer: Jeff Hunt
    Notes: Geneseo New York

    6 April 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Sun-N-Fun, Lakeland, FL.

    11 May 2018

    To Mark S. Adema, Rockledge, FL keeping c/r N5488V.

    To Warbird Air Museum, Space Center Executive Airport (North East Side), Titusville, FL.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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