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    Airframe Family: Vultee BT-13/BT-15/SNV Valiant
    Latest Model:SNV-1 Valiant
    Last Military Serial:03083 USN
    Construction Number:74-2276
    Last Civil Registration:N63838
    Compressed ID:Vultee SNV-1 sn 03083 USN cn 74-227...
    Latest Owner or Location:Kurt Von Graff, Princeton, NJ

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    Dates

    Event

    1941

    Constructed as a BT-13A.

    1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-11266.

    18 October 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 03083 as a SNV-1.

    18 October 1941

    Transferred to NAS Corpus Christi, TX.

    By 25 July 1955

    To unknown owner with c/r N63838 (BT-13A, 2276).

    25 July 1955

    Certificate of airworthiness for N63838 (BT-13A, 2276) issued.

    June 1978


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Springfield, OH

    3 August 1992

    To Joseph Borin, Annandale, NJ keeping c/r N63838.

    25 February 2009

    To Kurt Von Graff, Whitehouse Station, NJ keeping c/r N63838.

    8 October 2011


    Photographer: Owen ORourke
    Notes: At the VAA Vintage Aircraft Fall Fly-In at Woodward Field Airport, Camden, SC

    12 July 2016

    To Kurt Von Graff, Princeton, NJ keeping c/r N63838.
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    Warbird Information Exchange by Scott Rose
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