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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:C-45G Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:51-11869 USAAF
    Construction Number:4583
    Last Civil Registration:N166M
    Compressed ID:Beech C-45G sn 51-11869 USAAF cn 45...
    Latest Owner or Location:Ellis Ronald Gilbert, Fort Myers, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1942

    Constructed as a T-11.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-37587.

    1953

    Remanufactured as a C-45G.
    New construction number, AF-426, assigned to the airframe.

    1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 51-11869.

    22 November 1960

    Certificate of airworthiness for N6126C (C-45G, AF-426) issued.

    To unknown owner with c/r N6126C.

    From 1963 to 1969

    To Marion W. Merritt, Louisville KY with new c/r N166M.

    1975

    To Hollywood Flying Service, Fort Lauderdale FL/Anglers Club, Fort Lauderdale FL keeping c/r N166M.

    1979

    To Harold J. Degregory, Miami FL keeping c/r N166M.

    7 October 1981


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1981 photo at Ft.Lauderdale International - of a Beech E18S

    30 January 1988


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Homestead General, Florida

    March 1989

    To City of Fort Lauderdale FL keeping c/r N166M.

    25 January 1996

    To Ellis Ronald Gilbert, Fort Myers, FL keeping c/r N166M.

    20 January 1999

    To Ellis Ronald Gilbert, Fort Myers, FL keeping c/r N166M.

    11 January 2018

    Civil registration, N166M, cancelled.
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