Photos and info on T-50 N91088 - "The Parts Plane"

Historical Information supplied by Michael McMurtrey, Carrollton, Texas on June 10, 2010:

(N91088 is)........an extremely historically significant airplane. It is one of eleven I have so far identified as being assigned to the 318th Army Air Forces Flying Training Detachment, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, TX (the WASP training base). It was involved in a landing accident at Westbrook, TX, 24 June 1943, and a taxiing accident at Avenger Field, 18 November 1943.

Of these known eleven airplanes assigned to train WASPs, six were sold surplus at the end of the war, but yours is the only survivor. Her serial number 2688 (USAAF 42-14004) makes her an AT-17D/UC-78C (originally ordered as AT-17A for the RCAF, with British serial FJ427 also assigned, but taken over by the USAAF as an AT-17D and redesignated UC-78C prior to delivery).

Click here for a PDF document including all the FAA form 337's for N91088.

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