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    Airframe Family: North American T-28 Trojan / Fennec / Nomad
    Latest Model:JT-28A Trojan
    Last Military Serial:49-1494 USAF
    Construction Number:159-6
    Compressed ID:NA JT-28A sn 49-1494 USAF cn 159-6
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-28A.

    Circa 1949

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 49-1494.

    Transferred to Air Training Command.

    Transferred to Edwards AFB, CA.

    Redesignated as JT-28A.

    Used in a 250 flight hour Accelerated Service Test.

    By June 1963

    Transferred to 4950th Test Wing, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.

    September 1965

    To United States Air Force Museum, Patterson Field (East Side), Dayton, OH.
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    17 October 1970

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    21 May 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: T-28A Trojan as displayed at the USAF Museum in the Summer of 1973

    21 May 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: T-28A Trojan as displayed at the USAF Museum in the Summer of 1973

    21 July 1988


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    Markings Applied: TL-494

    6 May 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    19 April 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Larry Permann
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