INDEX OF PRESERVED AIRCRAFT TYPES USED BY THE FAA

Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless

Type	Total Number 2000	FAA notes 1999-2000	Threat Status 1999-2000	Changes 1999-2000
Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless	8 (+?)	Believed no FAA aircraft are preserved	-	? under Restoration Of the 5,396 built, only a few remain today.

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Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless
Status	Civil Registration Nunber	Serial Number s/n	Type	Markings	Owner/Operator	Condition/Notes
	-	BuNo 06583	SBD-3	-	National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo 06833	SBD-4	-	National Museum of Naval Aviation (USA)	wreck
	-	BuNo 06508	SBD-3	-	National Museum of Naval Aviation (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo 2106	SBD-2	-	National Museum of Naval Aviation (USA)	Restoration
	N93RW	Bu 42-54682	SBD-5	-	Lone Star Flight Museum (USA)	Airworthy
	-		SBD-5	-	Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (USA)	Static
	-	c/n 1858 BuNo06953 NZ5037	SBD-4	-	RNZAF museum (New Zealand)	Wreck
	-	c/n 2883 BuNo28536 NZ5062	SBD-5	-	Planes of Fame Museum (Chino, USA)	Airworthy
					Wrecks in the Solomons	Underwater wrecks

Associations and reunions

FURTHER INFORMATION
	Sturtivant, R. & Burrow, M (1995) 'Fleet Air Arm Aircraft 1939 to 1945' Published by Air Britain (Historians) Ltd, 1995 ISBN: 085130 232 7
Aviation History On-Line Museum -- SBD Page
Warbird Alley	Specifications about the Dauntless including re survivors
War wrecks in the Solomons -	War wrecks in the Solomons - documents some of the interesting Allied and Japanese wrecks from WWII includind a Dauntless wreck.

Last Modified: 3-12-2000

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