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Serial #: 41-9642 Construction #: 74-1876 Civil Registration: C-GSNV Model: BT-13A Name: None Status: Restoration Last info: 2002 Contact: Dan Jones # 11 Lakes Close Lacombe, Alberta, Canada, T4L 1S5 Phone: (403) 782 0976 E-Mail: warbirds@shaw.ca |
History: Delivered to USAAF as 41-9642. - BOC: Aug. 15, 1941. - SOC: Sept. 1944. - Assigned to Army Air Force Basic Pilot Training School (Air Training Command) Gunter Field, Montgomery, AL, 1941. - Transferred to to 75th Flying Training Detatchment (Contract Flying School, Basic) Riddle McKay Aero School, Clewiston, FL, Sept. 1941. -- Used to train RAF cadets in the US. -- wrecked in taxiing accident, Riddle Field, Florida by LAC E. Chamberlain (RAF cadet). Total Time Since New: 81.2 hrs., Nov. 9, 1942. - Transferred to Moody Field, Valdosta, GA, Nov. 1942. - Transferred to Shaw Field, Sumter, SC, Jan. 1943. - Transferred to 4117th AAF Base Unit (Air Technical Service Command) Robbins Field, CA, July 1944. -- Placed in storage for future use as technical training aid (but apparently not used). - Sold for scrap by the Reconstructive Finance Corporation, Ponca City, OK, Sept. 1944. Eventually found it's way into the Walter Soplata Collection of Newberry, Ohio (date unknown). Andy McQuire, Bon Accord, Alberta, Canada, June 21, 1989. G&M Aircraft, Ltd., St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, Jan. 22, 1990. - Placed in storage. Dan Jones, Lacombe, Alberta, Oct. 2, 2000-2002. - Restoration project to airworthy. - Registration C-GSNV reserved. |
The airplane was written off in a training accident in 1942 in Florida, then spent some 40 years as part of the Soplata Collection in Newberry, Ohio before I acquired it last year. The airplane will be rebuilt back to stock condition in it's original markings and be actively flown.