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    Airframe Family: Vultee BT-13/BT-15/SNV Valiant
    Latest Model:SNV-2 Valiant
    Last Military Serial:44177 USN
    Construction Number:79-1420
    Last Civil Registration:N61483
    Compressed ID:Vultee SNV-2 sn 44177 USN cn 79-142...
    Latest Owner or Location:Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison, Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a BT-13B.

    1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-32150.
    Not TOS, but diverted directly to USN.

    8 April 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 44177 as a SNV-2.

    8 April 1944

    Transferred to NOLF Cabaniss Field, Corpus Christi, TX.

    August 1944

    Transferred to Navy Training Squadron 12D8 (VN12D8), NOLF Cabaniss Field, Corpus Christi, TX.

    March 1945

    Transferred to Navy Training Squadron 13D8C (VN13D8C), NAAS Brownsville, TX.

    April 1945

    Transferred to NAS Clinton, OK.

    31 October 1945

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    October 1991

    To unknown owner with c/r N61483.

    15 October 1991

    Certificate of airworthiness for N61483 (SNV-2, 79-1420) issued.

    22 September 1993

    To Cavanaugh Collection Inc, Addison, TX keeping c/r N61483.

    22 September 1993

    Operated by Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.
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    14 January 2008


    Photographer: Jay Curtiss

    1 January 2015

    Certificate of airworthiness for N61483 (SNV-2, 79-1420) issued.


    Photographer: Dick Phillips via Mark Phillips
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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 Aircraft Designations and Serials 1909 to 1979 by John M. Andrade
    Internet Sources
     Cavanaugh Flight Museum
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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