10/31/2013. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "The Dutch government ordered 24 AT-11s on May 29, 1941, to be operated in the Netherlands East Indies, however, the Japanese overran that territory in March 1942. Hence, upon their completion in that same month, the Dutch AT-11s were immediately confiscated by the USAAF. They received fake USAAF serials in the '42-30xx' range, a contraction of the last two digits of the year and the four digits of the c/n. In May 1942 the Royal Netherlands Military Flying School (RNMFS) came into operation at Jackson, Missouri, and the aircraft were released for operation with the RNMFS.

The pictured aircraft was completed on March 18, 1942, and delivered to the RNMFS on May 16, 1942, marked 42-3069. On February 20, 1944, the aircraft was returned to the USAAF and serialed 44-72015; in 1953 it was stored at Hill AFB, Salina, Kansas. On June 14, 1956 it was donated by the Department of Health, Education & Welfare to the Mississippi State College (in 1958 renamed Mississippi State University). Registered N6251C on July 30, 1956, it gained its experimental class CofA in August 1956. The University's Aerophysics Department used it as a flying classroom & airborne laboratory.

Painted overall in orange, the aircraft was modified in July 1959 to carry a blimp model above the fuselage testing aerodynamics for USN Goodyear blimps. Further modifications were an airspeed boom and a trailing airspeed cone. Aerodynamic test were also conducted on a Boeing Vertol 107 dummy helicopter pylon and rotor system. In 1968 it was fitted as a flying classroom with six test stations.

On August 18, 1980, the aircraft was acquired by George J. Wedekind Jr. of Middletown, Ohio, and a few weeks later, September 8, the aircraft was registered to the Heritage Flying Machines Inc., also at Middletown. In April 1982 the aircraft was repainted in its original RNMFS markings. On October 10, 1994, N6251C was registered to Star Aviation Inc. at Star, North Carolina, renamed Sport Air LLC on April 27, 2009. The aircraft is still airworthy and visiting air shows and providing group rides."