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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:H18
    Construction Number:BA-638
    Last Civil Registration:N117ME
    Compressed ID:Beech H18 cn BA-638 cr N117ME
    Latest Owner or Location:Monarch Air Group Llc, Palm City, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1963

    Constructed as a H18.
    Beech H-18 BA-638

    4 January 1963

    Certificate of airworthiness for N39V (H-18, BA-638) issued.

    4 January 1963

    To Beech Aircraft Corp, Wichita KS with new c/r N39V.

    September 1963

    To Piedmont Aviation, Winston Salem NC keeping c/r N39V.

    1966

    To Dobbs Houses Inc, Memphis TN with new c/r N200DH.

    1969

    To Public Leasing Corp, Oklahoma City OK with new c/r N2009H.

    1978

    To Mercy Flights Inc, Medford OR keeping c/r N2009H.

    October 1978

    To Mercy Flights Inc, Medford OR with new c/r N117MF.

    March 1989

    To Mercy Flights Inc, Medford OR with new c/r N117ME.

    August 1989

    To Doak V. Boreing, Magnolia AR, keeping c/r N117ME.


    Photographer: Larry Green

    December 1993

    To Tom E. Demint/Astro Airways, Pine Bluff AR keeping c/r N117ME.

    1997

    To McNeely Charter Service, West Memphis AR keeping c/r N117ME.

    28 June 1999

    To Air Classic Cargo Inc, Spring Hill, FL keeping c/r N117ME.

    1 January 2004

    Certificate of airworthiness for N117ME (H-18, BA-638) issued.

    5 October 2004

    To L J Aviation Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N117ME.

    15 October 2004

    To L J Aviation, Wilmington de keeping c/r N117ME.

    9 June 2005

    To Monarch Air Group Llc, Palm City, FL keeping c/r N117ME.

    7 June 2012

    Civil registration, N117ME, cancelled.
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    Credits
     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
     AMCAR
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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