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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:SNJ-5 Texan
    Last Military Serial:85053 USN
    Construction Number:88-17274
    Last Civil Registration:N566TX
    Compressed ID:NA SNJ-5 sn 85053 USN cn 88-17274 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Lone Star Flight Museum, Houston, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SNJ-5.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-85493.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 85053.

    19 May 1959

    Certificate of airworthiness for N566TX issued.

    From 1963 to 1969

    To Robert H. Myers, Columbiana, OH, with new c/r N8210E.

    From 1972 to 1977

    To Gordon Newell/New Air Service, Utica, NY, keeping c/r N8210E.

    From 1978 to 1984

    To William M. Stern, Alton, IL with new c/r N777WS.

    8 September 1979


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Galesburg Municipal

    From 1984 to 1986

    To Mustang Aviation, Fairfield, NJ, keeping c/r N777WS.

    2 April 1991

    To Moretti Henry Jr, Cranston, RH keeping c/r N777WS.

    1 February 2008

    To Texas Aviation Hall of Fame, Galveston, TX with new c/r N566TX.

    Based at Lone Star Flight Museum, Scholes Field, Galveston, TX.
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    To Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas Love Field, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.
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    Markings Applied: 04566

    March 2011

    Placed on display with Lone Star Flight Museum, Ellington Field, Houston, TX.
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    2 December 2016

    To Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston, TX keeping c/r N566TX.

    16 August 2017

    To Lone Star Flight Museum, Houston, TX keeping c/r N566TX.
    Markings added: 04566

    20 October 2019


    Photographer: Alan Wilson
    Notes: At 2019 Wings over Houston Airshow at Ellington Airport, Houston, Texas.

    10 May 2024


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Houston - Ellington Field, TX, USA
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
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    Warbird Registry by Scott Rose
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
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