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Special thanks to Air Heritage for allowing us access to this aircraft.
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Serial #: 44-0020 Construction #: 23243 Civil Registration: N5066N N99385 Model: A-20H-1-DO Name: None Status: Restoration Last info: 2002 |
History: Delta Drilling Co/Texas Engineering & Manufacturing Co, Dallas, TX, June 25, 1947. - Registered as N5066N. Texas Aircraft Trading Co, Tyler, TX, Aug. 20, 1947. Universal Aviation Company, Tulsa, OK, June 1, 1948. Leonard Burns, San Francisco, CA, July 22, 1948. American Airmotive Corporation, Mimi, FL, Apr. 4, 1949-1951. - Noted as executive conversion, Miami, FL, 1955. Delivered to FA Nicaragua as FAN50, circa 1956. - Displayed in park, Carretera del Sur, Managua, Nicaragua, 1975-1977. Military Aircraft Restoration Corp, Chino, CA, Mar. 14, 1977-2002. - Registered as N99385. - Open storage, MARC yard, Chino, 1980-1991. - Under restoration by Air Heritage Inc, Beaver Falls, PA, 1991-2002. -- Trucked from Chino to Beaver Falls, 1991. -- Under restoration to airworthy, planned first flight 2003. |
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Photo Source(s):
Chuck Gardner - Warbirds Resource Group, www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org, 2002