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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:T-6G Texan
    Last Military Serial:28231 ALA
    Construction Number:88-16453
    Last Civil Registration:HB-RCN
    Compressed ID:NA T-6G sn 28231 ALA cn 88-16453 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Prilly, Lausanne, Canton of Vaud

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AT-6D.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-44736 as a AT-6D.

    Remanufactured as a T-6G.
    New construction number, 197-35, assigned to the airframe.

    27 March 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-8231 as a T-6G.

    January 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armee de l Air with s/n 28231.

    1977

    To Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis, Laferte-Alais, France,.

    10 April 2000

    To Association Charlies Heavy, Sullens, Switzerland with new c/r HB-RCN.

    5 December 2006

    Civil registration, N1385B, cancelled.

    18 May 2011


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: 2011 photo taken at Lausanne, Switzerland

    2014

    Based at Lausanne, Switzerland.

    Based at Prilly, Lausanne, Canton of Vaud.
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    10 August 2014


    Photographer: Michal Krechowski
    Notes: At the 1st Czech Warbirds Fly-In at Pilsen - Line

    26 May 2022


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Lausanne
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbird Registry by Scott Rose
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    Terry Fletcher
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