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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:Expeditor 3NM
    Last Military Serial:1474 RCAF
    Construction Number:A-0649
    Last Civil Registration:CF-WYR
    Compressed ID:Beech Expeditor 3NM sn 1474 RCAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pipestone Air Inc, Emo, ON

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an Expeditor 3NM.

    From 18 December 1951 to September 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 1474.

    New construction number, CA-49, assigned to the airframe.

    1970

    To Severn Enterprises Ltd, Thunder Bay ONT with new c/r CF-WYR.

    1973


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: At Sioux Lookout

    1976

    To Superior Airways, Thunder Bay, ON keeping c/r CF-WYR.

    27 July 1981

    To Bearskin Lake Air Service, Sioux Lookout ONT keeping c/r CF-WYR.

    23 August 1988

    To Central Mountain Air Ltd, Smithers BC keeping c/r CF-WYR.

    24 May 1991

    To North Cariboo Flying Service, Fort Saint John BC keeping c/r CF-WYR.

    27 May 1993

    To Nestor Falls Fly-In Outposts Ltd, Nestor Falls ONT keeping c/r CF-WYR.

    8 August 1993


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 1993 photo at Sioux Narrows, ON - ex RCAF 1474

    30 May 1994

    To Derek G. Campbell/Nestor Falls Flying Service, Nestor Falls ONT keeping c/r CF-WYR.

    18 June 1996

    To Saltwater West Enterprises Ltd, Smithers BC keeping c/r CF-WYR.

    20 February 2001

    To Pipestone Air Inc, Emo, ON keeping c/r CF-WYR.

    2004

    Damaged.
    Badly damaged, struck high tension wires, Fort Frances ONT.

    18 August 2006

    Civil registration, CF-WYR, cancelled.

    Circa 2012

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Wrecked airframe on undercarriage at Kenora, ONT.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Beech 18: A Civil and Military History by R. K. Parmerter
    Internet Sources
     Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Transport Canada
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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