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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:SNJ-4 Texan
    Last Military Serial:51562 USN
    Construction Number:88-14144
    Last Civil Registration:N51562
    Compressed ID:NA SNJ-4 sn 51562 USN cn 88-14144 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Wayne C. Haley DBA, Okeechobee, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SNJ-4.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 51562.
    Editor note: The FAA database quotes the identification of this airframe as 88-12929 which is USN BuNo 27533. The original cockpit placard quotes USN BuNo 51562.

    To unknown owner with c/r N6861C.

    4 June 1957

    Certificate of airworthiness for N51562 (AT-6C, 88-12929) issued.

    From 1963 to 1964

    To Dogwood Inc, Summit, NJ keeping c/r N6861C.

    From 1966 to 1976

    To Newton H. Smith, Edison, NJ keeping c/r N6861C.

    1977

    To Har Ran Aircraft Sales, Tulsa, OK keeping c/r N6861C.
    Markings added: 61C

    14 March 1982


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Titusville-Cocoa Airport in Florida

    1984

    To John M. Ware, Atlanta GA keeping c/r N6861C.

    1986

    To William F. Kramer, New Hyde Park, NY keeping c/r N6861C.

    From 14 March 1989 to 1992

    To Robert C. Beckman, Ashville, OH keeping c/r N6861C.

    From December 1992 to 1999

    To Robert C. Beckman, Ashville, OH with new c/r N51562.

    August 1994


    Photographer: Milo
    Notes: Photographed at Batavia, NY.

    Circa 18 August 1994


    Photographer: Earl A Holmquist
    Notes: Photographed at the Wings of Eagles Air Show in Batavia, NY.

    8 June 1999

    To Loudermilk and Associates Llc, Hermitage, TN keeping c/r N51562.

    11 January 2001

    To Donald W. Morse DBA, Deer Park, WA keeping c/r N51562.

    1 January 2004

    Certificate of airworthiness for N51562 (AT-6C, 88-12929) issued.

    19 January 2010

    To Donald W. Morse DBA, Deer Park, WA keeping c/r N51562.

    30 January 2014

    To Donald W. Morse, Chewelan, WA keeping c/r N51562.

    2 February 2019

    To Donald W. Morse, Priest Lake, ID keeping c/r N51562.

    20 February 2020


    Photographer: Janson
    Notes: Found in Discount Aircraft Salvage, Deer Park, WA.

    17 January 2024

    To unknown owner with c/r N51562.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Okeechobee, FL.

    19 February 2024

    To Wayne C. Haley DBA, Okeechobee, FL keeping c/r N51562.
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    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
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