Dates

Event

Circa 1942

Constructed as a BT-15.
Consolidated Vultee BT-15 10798

Circa 1942

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-42010.

30 July 1958

Certificate of airworthiness for N550C (BT-15, 10798) issued.

15 July 1985

To Bill D. Pounds, Odessa, TE with new c/r N550C.

9 October 1993

Photographer: eLaReF
Notes: CAF Show, Midland, 1993

18 September 1996

To Thomas E. Bayne Jr, Waldorf, MD keeping c/r N550C.
Markings added: Two Shoes

2 August 1998

Crashed.
There were two fatalities. The accident occurred at the Kentmorr Airpark (3W3) Stevensville, MD, United States. The airframe was destroyed. According to witnesses, before the flight, at a local restaurant, the pilot told a waitress that he would fly by the restaurant and wave. The airplane departed the airport, initially flew west, then south, parallel to the shore line. At the marina, the airplane flew by at a low altitude, about 150-300 feet above the ground...
For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

19 April 2013

Civil registration, N550C, cancelled.