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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:T-6 Texan
    Last Military Serial:27842 {1} USN
    Construction Number:88-13578 {1}
    Compressed ID:NA T-6 sn 27842 USN cn 88-13578
    Latest Owner or Location:Selfridge Military Air Museum, Selfridge ANGB, Mount Clemens, Michigan

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-6.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 27842 {1}.
    Leon Cleaver comments: Most data plates are missing which may explain the aircraft serial number on Texan displayed in Spain.
    Your Assistance is Needed: Can you confirm the airframe displayed in Spain is not 27842? If so what is the ID of the airframe in the museum collection in Madrid?
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    Transferred to Anacostia.

    Transferred to Cherry Point.

    July 1960

    Dave Hessler comments (28 July 2017): My father purchased an SNJ-5 fuselage from the Shelby salvage yard for me to play in. Beside the yellow SNJ was a silver T-6 fuselage. Since there were only 2 fuselages in the salvage yard, I conclude that the silver fuselage was the one sold to Leon Cleaver.

    20 September 1970

    To Leon Cleaver Collection, Norwalk, OH.
    Purchased from salvage yard in Shelby Ohio by Leon Cleaver. Only the fuselage survives here stored in a shed.
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    28 April 1977


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Outer wing panel off AT-6/Harvard. Panels were eventually sold with SNJ-4 package. Photo shows wings on side road near Ortner Airport, Wakeman Ohio.

    28 November 1999


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Being moved from Henrietta Township to Huron County Ohio

    6 June 2011


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Huron County site; aircraft being prepared for sale.

    11 July 2011

    To Ken Sciog, Niagara Falls, NY.

    20 July 2011


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Ready to Roll. New owner Ken Sciog on left with helper Bruce about to leave for Niagara Falls NY.

    2012

    To Roger Johnson, Broken Arrow, OK.

    2014

    To Selfridge Military Air Museum, Selfridge ANGB, Mount Clemens, MI.
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    13 January 2014

    Markings Applied: 28227
    Restored to represent a T-6 (#42-8227) flown by the Michigan ANGs 171 FBS from 1953 to 1955.


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: This T-6 Texan will soon be added to the air park display at the Selfridge Military Museum at Selfridge Air National Guard Base. The single-engine trainer was flown by the Michigan Air National Guard from 1946 until 1955. It is painted in colors appropriate to that era.
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    Terry Fletcher
    Dave Hessler
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