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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:Expeditor 3T
    Last Military Serial:HB131 RCAF
    Construction Number:5998
    Last Civil Registration:N6683
    Compressed ID:Beech Expeditor 3T sn HB131 RCAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hamilton Aircraft Company, Tucson, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as an UC-45B.

    1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-35557 as a UC-45B.

    1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n HB131 as a Expeditor I.

    From 18 February 1944 to 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n HB131 as a Expeditor I.

    1952

    Converted to an Expeditor 3T.

    From 1968 to 1974

    To Hamilton Aircraft Co, Tucson AZ with new c/r N6683.

    3 February 1969

    To Hamilton Aircraft Company, Tucson, AZ keeping c/r N6683.

    3 May 1972

    Civil registration, N6683, cancelled.

    September 1974

    Noted derelict in Hamiltons yard at Tucson AZ.


    Photographer: Doug Slowiak Collection
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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
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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