09/30/2007. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "Basically similar to the USN SBD-5 Dauntless, this was one of the 615 A-24B-DTs built for the USAAF. Ordered by Contract AC-28716 of November 12, 1942, it was delivered in 1943 with s/n 42-54582. In 1954 it was sold to Marsh Aviation, Litchfield, Arizona and registered as N4488N. Between 1959 and 1970 the aircraft was owned by the City Of Portland Mosquito Control and operated by Aero Flite, Inc, Troutdale, Oregon, as a spray aircraft to combat mosquitoes over Portland and Multnomah County, Oregon.

In 1970 it was sold to John and Barrett Tillman of Pacific Aeronautical Corp, Lake Oswego, Oregon who restored the aircraft. In 1974 it was sold to Douglas Champlin of Windward Aviation, Enid, Oklahoma and reregistered N17421. From March 1975 till 2002 the aircraft has been on display as an SBD-5 at the USMC Museum, MCAS Quantico, Virginia. Thereafter is has been on display at the National Museum of the USAF, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio."