11/15/2022. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "Built as a BT-13A for the USAAF under the serial 41-22578 in 1942, at the end of WW II it was withdrawn from use and sold on the civil market, registered N56336. By January 1964 it was registered to Robert Hughes of Torrance, California, by January 1966 it was registered to Ray Smith Reynolds, Los Alamitos.

The next owner was the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation of Beverly Hills, which had the aircraft converted to a replica Aichi D3A1 dive-bomber (allied code name "Val") for use in the war film Tora! Tora! Tora! It wore the Japanese code "AI-231".

In late 1970 N56336 was sold to the New Mexico Wing of the Confederate Air Force (CAF) at Hobbs, New Mexico. In 1973 it was transferred to the headquarters of the CAF at Rebel Field, Harlingen, Texas, then in 1983 to the American Airpower Heritage Flight Museum at Midland, while it was taken up in the inventory of the Commemorative Air Force Airpower Museum, also at Midland. For years the aircraft was shown at aviation events all over the USA. Meanwhile the Japanese code "AI-231" was changed to "EI-231".

The aircraft was lost in an accident during the filming of 'Pearl Harbor' on Ford Island, Hawaii, on April 17, 2000. At the end of a low pass of three replica "Val's" over a film set with 65 ft (20 m) tall palm trees, the number 3 wingmen contacted a palm tree due to turbulence created by from the flight leader. The aircraft rolled into the ground, the pilot survived with serious injuries. The registration was cancelled on August 23, 2000."