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    Airframe Family: Beech 45/T-34 Mentor
    Latest Model:T-34B Mentor
    Construction Number:BG-301
    Last Civil Registration:N7945C
    Compressed ID:Beech T-34B cn BG-301 cr N7945C
    Latest Owner or Location:United States Navy, San Diego, CA

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    Event

    Constructed as a T-34B.

    By March 1971

    To unknown owner with c/r N7945C.

    March 1971

    Roger Scruggs comments (7 May 2021): Flew this plane on March 1971 at Pt Mugu Navy Flying club. Would love to see photos of it. Roger Scruggs.
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    5 July 1974

    To United States Navy, San Diego, CA keeping c/r N7945C.

    3 November 1976


    Photographer: PH1 A. E. Legare, USN
    Notes: LFG NO: 2543-11-76. Date Taken: 11-3-76, Offshore San Diego. Subject: In flight aerial view of North Island Aero Club T-34B, N7945C (BURO 143994). Aircraft is shown with the Spirit of 76 paint scheme to celebrate the bicentennial. Piloted by AG2 Keith Ballenger

    26 October 1981

    Civil registration, N7945C, cancelled.


    Photographer: Keith Ballenger
    Notes: Circa 1976. Aircraft was based at the NAS North Island Flying Club. I was preparing to take my grandfather for a ride at the Auburn, CA airport (KAUN). At the time, I was enlisted as an AG2 based at the Naval Weather Service Facility, NASNI. Keith Ballenger - Ashland, OR
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