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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:SNJ-5B Texan
    Last Military Serial:85036 USN
    Construction Number:88-17197
    Last Civil Registration:N9805C
    Compressed ID:NA SNJ-5B sn 85036 USN cn 88-17197...
    Latest Owner or Location:SNJ Llc, Downers Grove, IL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AT-6D-NT by North American at Dallas, Texas, USA.

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-85416.

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 85036 as a SNJ-5B.
    Diverted to the U.S. Navy.

    1958

    To unknown owner with c/r N9805C.

    1963

    To Ben W. Widtfeldt, Phoenix, AZ keeping c/r N9805C.

    1972

    To Roy D. Miller, Monterey, CA keeping c/r N9805C.

    1976

    To Jack Flaherty, Hollister, CA keeping c/r N9805C.

    1977

    To Robert F. Byrne, Bloomfield Hills MI keeping c/r N9805C.

    14 March 1982


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At TIX.

    29 November 1990

    To David Voglund, Radcliff, KE keeping c/r N9805C.

    By 25 July 1998

    Damaged.
    Damaged when ground looped with failure of the tail wheel lock mechanism while landing at Kenosha, WI.

    23 April 1999

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9805C (SNJ-5B, 85036) issued.

    31 January 2000

    To SNJ Llc, Wayne, IL keeping c/r N9805C.

    Based at Kendall Tamiami Executive Airport, Miami, FL.
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    1 April 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 visitor to Sun n Fun at Lakeland, Florida

    10 June 2014

    To SNJ Llc, Downers Grove, IL keeping c/r N9805C.

    25 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: at 2017 AirVenture at Oshkosh

    12 May 2020

    To SNJ Llc, Downers Grove, IL keeping c/r N9805C.

    15 May 2021


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Illinois Valley Regional Airport, Peru, IL
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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 Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
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