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    Airframe Family: Fairchild M62 / PT-19 / PT-23 / PT-26 Cornell
    Latest Model:PT-26-FA Cornell
    Last Military Serial:FH980 RCAF
    Construction Number:T42-4329
    Last Civil Registration:N68359
    Compressed ID:Fairchild PT-26-FA sn FH980 RCAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Donald M. Hawkins, Encinitas, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as a PT-26-FA by Fairchild at Hagerstown, MD, USA.
    Fairchild(howard) T42-4329

    1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-15459.

    From 23 March 1943 to 21 October 1946

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n FH980 and operated with these markings: 96.

    April 1943

    Transferred to No. 34 Elementary Flying Training School, Assiniboia, SK.

    Circa November 1946


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: War surplus RCAF Cornell landing low on approach to Concord, CA, where it was to be sold by the War Assets Administration in 1946

    16 January 1958

    Certificate of airworthiness for N68359 (M-62C(PT-23A), T42-4329) issued.

    By January 1964

    To Robert Bruce Allison, Redondo Beach, CA with new c/r N68359.

    January 1978

    To Richard Hawkins, Newport Beach, CA keeping c/r N68359.

    4 April 1994

    To Donald M. Hawkins, Fallbrook, CA keeping c/r N68359.

    5 May 1997

    To Donald M. Hawkins, Fallbrook, CA keeping c/r N68359.

    6 April 2011

    To Donald M. Hawkins, Lake Elsinore, CA keeping c/r N68359.

    30 October 2013

    To DMR Enterprises Inc, Corona, CA keeping c/r N68359.

    16 May 2014

    To Donald M. Hawkins, Corona, CA keeping c/r N68359.

    1 January 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for N68359 (M-62C(PT-23A), T42-4329) issued.

    11 April 2017

    To Donald M. Hawkins, Encinitas, CA keeping c/r N68359.
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