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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:T-6D Texan
    Last Military Serial:1502 FAPo
    Construction Number:88-14722
    Last Civil Registration:G-TXAN
    Compressed ID:NA T-6D sn 1502 FAPo cn 88-14722 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Phillip Lawton, Espoo, Finland

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-6D.

    Circa 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 41-33888.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South African Air Force with s/n 7439.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Forcas Aereas da Armada with s/n 1502.

    Circa 1970

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Forca Aerea Portuguesa with s/n 1502.

    17 November 1978

    To Norfolk Aerial Spraying with new c/r G-JUDI.

    1982


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: Circa 1982 photo at Old Warden

    Circa April 1983


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Duxford.

    Circa April 1983


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Duxford.

    Markings Applied: FX301
    Painted in false RAF markings.

    Circa 2000


    Photographer: Unknown / UK Register
    Notes: Uncredited photo from UK Register flying with false marks of FX301

    16 February 2009

    To Paul Squires, Chorley, Lancashire with new c/r G-TXAN.

    By 2009

    Markings Applied: 970, NAVY GLENVIEW, SNJ-5 NAVY 51970, V
    With ownership the change the aircraft was painted in US Navy colours.

    After 2009


    Photographer: Unknown / UK Register
    Notes: Uncredited photo from UK Register - now painted in US Navy Colours

    15 March 2011

    To Phillip Lawton, Espoo, Finland.

    5 May 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: Abingdon Air show 2013

    2014

    Markings Applied: Finnish Fantasy
    New artwork added.

    10 September 2016


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At the 2016 Oldtimer Fly-in at Hahnweide airfield near Stuttgart, Germany

    22 April 2023


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: With German reg D-FURI at Aero 2023, Friedrichshafen, Germany
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