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SNJ-2/Bu. 2040
SNJ-2/Bu.2040
Bureau #: 2040
Construction #: 65-2029
Civil Registration:
  NC52033
  N52033
Model(s):
  SNJ-2
Name: None
Status: Destroyed
Last info: 2007
History:
Delivered to United States Navy as Bu. 2040.
- BOC: Unknown.
- SOC: Unknown.
H. H. Richardson, Ocala FL .46/47.
- Registered as NC52033.
Anthony Stinis/Stinis Air Service/Skytypers Inc, La Guardia Airport, NY, & Cypress, CA, 1963-1976.
- Registered as N52033.
- Modified to single-seater.
- Flew as #4.
- Wing struck runway on takeoff, La Guardia, NY, August 11, 1974.
Skytypers East Inc, La Guardia Airport, NY, circa 1977-1986.
- Struck parked PA-23 while taxying after landing with 5 SNJs, La Guardia, NY, July 8, 1979.
Mort Arken/SNJ-2 Corp, Farmingdale, NY, January 31, 1987-2007.
- Operated by Skytypers Inc, Farmingdale-Republic, NY, 1987-2007.
- Flew in Skytypers fleet as #0, later #6.
- Ground collision with SNJ-2/N62382 while taxiing for departure, Farmingdale, NY, September 2, 2007.
- Crashed and destroyed during airshow, Oceana NAS, VA, August 7, 2007.
SNJ-2/Bu.2040
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Federal Aviation Administration.
Joe Baugher's Serial Numbers Page
Photo Source(s):
Robert N. Abbott Jr.

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