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    Airframe Family: Beech 17 Staggerwing / C-43/GB Traveler
    Latest Model:C17R Staggerwing
    Construction Number:0073
    Last Civil Registration:N15487
    Compressed ID:Beech C17R cn 0073 cr N15487
    Latest Owner or Location:Chad Norbert Koppie, Dundee, IL (later Gilberts, IL)

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    Dates

    Event

    1936

    Constructed as a C17R.

    1 May 1936

    To Beech Aircraft Company, Wichita, KS with new c/r NC15487.

    5 May 1936

    To Oil Country Specialities, Coffeyville, KS keeping c/r NC15487.
    Markings added: OCS


    Photographer: Beech Corporation

    To C. Stovall, Shreveport, LA keeping c/r NC15487.

    To Ohio Tool Co, Cleveland, OH keeping c/r NC15487.

    1946

    To Rawdon Bros. Flying Service, Wichita, KS keeping c/r NC15487.

    1947

    To Petrolite Corporation, MO keeping c/r NC15487.

    1955

    To M. R. Jones, La Grange, IL keeping c/r NC15487.

    28 October 1958

    Certificate of airworthiness for N15487 (C17R, 73) issued.

    1961

    To Safari Coach Co, Joliet, IL with new c/r N15487.

    1963

    To P. M. Roach, Dekalb, IL keeping c/r N15487.

    11 July 1963

    To Chad Norbert Koppie, Dundee, IL (later Gilberts, IL) keeping c/r N15487.

    1968

    Damaged.
    Badly burnt in a hangar fire.

    7 June 2017

    Civil registration, N15487, cancelled.
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     Beech 17 Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
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