One of a great turn-out of around a dozen T-6s

Flying close with F-AZBQ

From Aug 1980 until the early 1990s, Harvard F-AZBE was c/n 88-12127. But in 1993 that airframe was rebuilt as an NA-68 replica with new c/n SA-31, and the registration F-AZBE was given to this aircraft, c/n 121-42835. It is ex USAAF 44-82113, USN 112067, then Spanish AF E.16-179 and later C.6-179, and was acquired by Jean-Baptiste Salis in Jan 1979. Kept in storage until the early 1990s, then restored in these USAF markings with fake serial. It was registered as F-AZBE on 2 Mar 1993, still under the old and now incorrect c/n 88-12127 instead of c/n 121-42835. It is sometimes incorrectly quoted as c/n 88-12304 ex USN 27268, Spain C.6-180, but that airframe crashed at San Bartolome de Tirajana (Gran Canaria) on 9 Mar 1977.