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    Airframe Family: Vultee BT-13/BT-15/SNV Valiant
    Latest Model:Val Replica
    Construction Number:79-1220
    Last Civil Registration:N56867
    Compressed ID:Vultee Val Replica cn 79-1220 cr N5...
    Latest Owner or Location:Mid Atlantic Air Museum, Reading, PA

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    Dates

    Event

    1945

    Constructed as a BT-13B.

    1945

    Allocated to the United States Army Air Force for administrative purposes. It did not serve with this service.
    Purchased by USAAF for the Navy.

    1968

    To unknown owner with c/r N56867.
    One of many aircraft acquired by Elmo Williams for making the film Tora, Tora, Tora.

    Circa 1969

    Converted to a Val Replica.
    Converted to replicate WWII Japanese Val dive bomber for the movie Tora, Tora, Tora.

    Markings Applied: 867
    Japanese Navy Markings.

    By 1981

    To unknown owner.

    6 November 1981

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX56867 (BT-13B (SNV-2), 79-1220) issued.

    1985


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA. (former Tallmantz)

    10 November 1985


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At John Wayne Airport, CA (a former Tallmantz aircraft)

    1988


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Taken at Chino Airport, California.

    October 1990

    Markings Applied: BI-211

    October 1990


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Houston-Ellington Field, TX

    10 August 1991


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL

    25 September 1996

    To Laird Aviation Inc, Lemoyne, PA keeping c/r N56867.

    Based at Commemorative Air Force-Capital Wing, Culpeper County Airport, Remington, VA.
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    1 January 2006

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX56867 (BT-13B (SNV-2), 79-1220) issued.

    21 June 2007

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX56867 (BT-13B (SNV-2), 79-1220) issued.

    14 July 2012


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Geneseo Air Show in Geneseo, New York.

    14 July 2012


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Geneseo Air Show in Geneseo, New York.

    To Virginia Beach Airport, Virginia Beach, VA.
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    29 June 2023

    To Mid Atlantic Air Museum, Reading, PA keeping c/r N56867.
    Credits
     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
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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