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    Airframe Family: Northrop BT-1 / BT-2 / Douglas SBD/A-24
    Latest Model:A-24B-10-DT Banshee
    Last Military Serial:42-54582 USAAF
    Construction Number:17421
    Last Civil Registration:N17421
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-24B-10-DT sn 42-54582 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-24B-10-DT by Douglas at Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-54582.

    1954

    To Marsh Aviation, Litchfield, AZ with new c/r N4488N.

    From 1956 to 1971

    To City of Portland Mosquito Control, Portland OR keeping c/r N4488N.

    From 1956 to 1971

    Operated by Aero Flight Inc, Troutdale OR.
    Operated as mosquito sprayer, and as Fire Tanker 60.


    Photographer: Ron Olsen

    From 1971 to 1974

    To Barrett Tillman/Pacific Aeronautical Corp, Lake Oswego OR keeping c/r N4488N.

    From 1971 to 1972

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: 17421/S6
    Restored as SBD-5.

    February 1972

    First post-restoration Flight.

    25 April 1972

    Certificate of airworthiness for N4488N (A-24B, 17421) issued.

    From March 1974 to 2011

    To Doug Champlin/Windward Aviation, Enid OK with new c/r N17421.

    March 1975

    Loaned to Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum, Quantico, Triangle, VA.
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    18 July 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio.

    18 July 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    18 July 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    By 2001

    Markings Applied: S6, 17421, SBD

    Circa 2001


    Photographer: Robert Abbott
    Notes: At Air, Land and Sea Museum MCAS Quantico.

    Circa April 2001


    Photographer: Robert Abbott
    Notes: At Air, Land and Sea Museum MCAS Quantico.

    By June 2004

    Loaned to National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    By November 2004

    Markings Applied: 115786
    Displayed as A-24 s/n 41-15786 which crash-landed on Java on February 20, 1942.


    Photographer: National Museum of the USAF


    Photographer: National Museum of the USAF

    6 November 2004


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    4 December 2006


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    6 May 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    6 May 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Displayed at the National Museum of the United States Air Force

    13 July 2011

    Civil registration, N17421, cancelled.

    2 November 2011


    Photographer: Andrew King
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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