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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:SNJ-5 Texan
    Last Military Serial:91021 USN
    Construction Number:121-41957
    Last Civil Registration:N6971C
    Compressed ID:NA SNJ-5 sn 91021 USN cn 121-41957...
    Latest Owner or Location:Larry J. Cranton, Mesa, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AT-6D (NA-121).

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-81235.
    Transferred directly to the Navy.

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 91021 as a SNJ-5.

    Assigned to NAF Litchfield Park, AZ for storage.

    1962

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    1962

    To Western State Aviation, Gunnison, CO with new c/r N6971C.

    March 1981

    To Lorren M. Kalish, Phoenix, AZ keeping c/r N6971C.

    2 August 1988


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Oshkosh, WI

    29 June 1994

    Certificate of airworthiness for N6971C (SNJ-5, BU91021) issued.

    18 August 1997

    To Larry J. Cranton, Mesa, AZ keeping c/r N6971C.
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     Glenn Chatfield
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