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    Airframe Family: Curtiss SB2C/SBW Helldiver / A-25 Shrike
    Latest Model:SB2C-1A Helldiver
    Last Military Serial:76805 USMC
    Compressed ID:Curtiss SB2C-1A sn 76805 USMC
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-25A.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-80449.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 76805 as a SB2C-1A.

    Circa 1943

    Burnt on fire practice ground at NAS Sand Point, WA. Dumped into Lake Washington.

    Circa 1986

    To Matt McCauley (and) Jeff Hummel T/A Recovery Services Ltd, Bellevue, W.
    Discovered ca 1982 and recovered in 1986.

    1990

    To Mike Rawson, Minneapolis-Anoka County, MN.

    From 2000 to 2008

    Restored.
    Static restoration at Anoka County MN, using using outer wings and tailplane from Bu75318 recovered by Rawson from mountain crash site in Utah in 1999.

    2008

    Transported by ground. Delivered to National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    This is a composite restoration incorporating parts from 75448 and 75552. To be restored as A-25A and marked to represent a WASP tow target aircraft at Camp Stewart, Ga., in June 1944.

    19 April 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Canopy section, in restoration hangar

    19 April 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: In restoration hangar. Engine, fuselage, and wings behind
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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