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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:T-6J Texan
    Last Military Serial:1744 FAPo
    Construction Number:CCF-4-486
    Compressed ID:Canadian Car and Foundry T-6J sn 17...
    Latest Owner or Location:Museu do Ar, Unknown Location, Flying Condition

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    Dates

    Event

    7 October 1953

    Constructed as a T-6J by Canadian Car and Foundry at Fort William (Thunder Bay), Ontario, Can.

    1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-8565.

    1953

    Transferred to USAFE, Lansberg AB, FRG.

    24 September 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe with s/n AA+079.

    24 September 1956

    Transferred to Flugzeugfuhrerschule, Lansberg AB, FRG.

    1958

    New serial number assigned: BF-079 Luftwaffe

    1958

    Transferred to TSLW-1, Kaufbeuren, FRG.

    25 September 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Forca Aerea Portuguesa with s/n 1744.

    25 September 1964

    Transferred to BA7, Aveiro.

    1966

    Assigned to BA3, Tancos for storage.

    1970

    Transferred to BA3, Tancos.
    Returned to operational flying status.

    1976

    Transferred to BA7, Aveiro.

    March 1978

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Forca Aerea Portuguesa.
    Placed in store at BA6, Montijo.

    1980

    To Museu do Ar, Unknown Location, Flying Condition.

    2000

    Restoration started.

    2002

    Restoration completed.

    By 5 July 2002

    Markings Applied: 1675
    In the colours of a FAP T-6G s/n 1675. This was the aircraft flown by Lt Antonio Lobata when he was killed in a crash in Guinea on 22 May 1963.

    5 July 2002


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at an exhibition in Parc da Nao, Lisbon

    5 July 2002


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at an exhibition in Parc da Nao, Lisbon

    18 May 2003

    Crashed.
    At Ouressa, killing Col Francis Maria Gaspar (pilot) and Cabo Coelho (mechanic).
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