'Hi Tony,
Thanks for the info.? Attached is a picture of my Mom & Dad in the PT-19A.? This is during the early 1950's when the plan had very few hours?flight time.
Kevin
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From: tonyb42uk
To:
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Sent: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 6:26 am
Subject: [fairchildclub] Re: NEW MEMBER karenmarsh02
Hello Karen.
From the AAF microfilmed history card. Available from the Air Force
Historical research Agency, Maxwell. AL. and the Smithsonian archive:
USAAF serail: 43-33730.
Manufacturer: Fairchild, Hagerstown, MD.
Contract No: AC-29835.
Accepted: March 18,1944.(by the USAAF at Hagerstown)
Final Destination. Gunter Field, Montogomery, AL.
Ferry details.
Delivered: March 20th.
Arrived: March 21st (Atlanta)
Remained at Atlanta - March 22nd (weather).
Arrived: March 24th. (Gunter).
The next recorded assignment was to Robins Field on June 16th, where
43-33730 appears to have remained until transferred to the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation for surplus storage and sale in
September 1944.
Gunter Field was the location of the Eastern Flying Training Command
headquarters and a Basic Flying Training School operating Vultee BT-
13 variants. AFAIK, there was no primary flight school at Gunter and
so the station is unlikely to have used many primary trainers. I
think it is probable 43-33730 saw little or any operational use at
Gunter Field and that the assignment is simply to the EFTC. By the
spring of 1944 the cut-back of the primary flying program had begun
and Fairchild production was almost complete. Typically, 43-33730
looks like one of the last few hundred PT-19As built that saw no
service prior to disposal.
The details of it's civil career might be found from the FAA
documents. I did notice that the batch of registrations NC46190 to
NC46199 appear to be have been assigned to mainly similar late
delivery PT-19s, which may be a sign they were all sold from the same
RFC sales field or to the same broker. Whosoever the first owners
were they will have purchased some almost new aircaft at a knock-down
price!
Hope this helps, Tony Broadhurst.
P.S. If you have any photographs of NC46191 whilst in your family's
ownership I would be interested in obtaining a copy.
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> Email address: karenmarsh02
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> Comment from user:
> Hi, I am interested in PT-19's and am looking for info on one
> that my family owned in the 1950's. NC46191, USAAF serial #43-33730,
> serial number T43-7315.
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