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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:C-45H Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:52-10919 USAF
    Construction Number:8524
    Last Civil Registration:CF-NUY
    Compressed ID:Beech C-45H sn 52-10919 USAF cn 852...
    Latest Owner or Location:Parsons Airways Northern Ltd, Flin Flon, MB

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-45F.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-87265.

    Remanufactured as a C-45H.

    New construction number, AF-849, assigned to the airframe.

    13 December 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-10919.

    December 1960

    To Aero American Corp, Tucson, AZ with new c/r N9866Z.

    5 December 1961

    Civil registration, N9866Z, cancelled.

    1962

    To Sherritt-Gordon Mines Ltd, Lynn Lake, MB with new c/r CF-NUY.


    Photographer: John Olafson Collection
    Notes: CF-NUY 1963 at Lynn Lake Manitoba - This Expeditor was used in mineral surveys by Sherritt-Gordon Gold Mines Ltd in Northern Manitoba. It had nine pods fitted to it for a magnetometer cable loop. John Caswell flew it and he shared this photo with me several years ago

    20 May 1970

    To Parsons Airways Northern Ltd, Flin Flon, MB keeping c/r CF-NUY.

    14 March 1972

    Involved in an incident.
    At Amisk Lake,Saskatchewan - 1 ski nose dug into snow on snow covered lake on Take off. Violent ground loop.

    1980

    Scrapped.
    Broken-up for parts at Corman Air Park, Sasktoon, Sask.
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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
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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