Ahh yes Jim, thanks for the reminder. I remember that thread now, and I think I may have identified the plane in the registry. The partial serial number and location of the plane in recent years seems to line up, except the owner I spoke with was a local from Monroe. I'm guessing he may have been representing the plane for the gentleman in Mississippi that bought it from him.
Looks like there's a trip to Dallas in my future to see where they have their AT-6 stored, and to get a visual confirmation. It doesn't appear to be on display at the museum yet.
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/texanregistry/texan-5114429.htmlSerial #: 51-14429
Construction #:
182-116
Civil Registration:
N896WW
N729AM
Model: T-6G
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2006
History:
Delivered to to Armee de l'Air as 114429, 19??-1965.
- Up for disposal, Feb. 11, 1976.
Sold to US Owner, stored until 1979.
Registration candidate as N896WW, Aug. 1979.
Leslie R. Coffman, West Monroe, LA, 1986.
Ben Cunningham, Jackson, MS, Jan. 1988-1995.
Southern Mechanical Plumbing, Shreveport, LA, July 7, 1998-1999.
- Registered as N729AM, May 1999.
Frontiers Of Flight Museum, Dallas, TX, circa 2004-2006.
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Too bad they took all of the cool hardpoints, etc off of it. It cleans up the airframe but in a world of cookie-cutter Texans it kind of robs the plane of its uniqueness. Anyway, she still looks great! I wonder who was responsible for the restoration back to airworthiness?
