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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:C-45G Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:51-11870 USAF
    Construction Number:3288
    Last Civil Registration:N504N
    Compressed ID:Beech C-45G sn 51-11870 USAF cn 328...
    Latest Owner or Location:Southwest Aero Exchange, Owasso OK

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-11.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-36908.

    Remanufactured as a C-45G.

    New construction number, AF-427, assigned to the airframe.

    January 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-11870.

    1959

    To Northern Natural Gas, Omaha NE with new c/r N9605C.

    8 June 1959

    Certificate of airworthiness for N504N (C-45G, AF-427) issued.

    19 June 1959

    To Northern Natural Gas, Omaha NE with new c/r N504N.

    1966

    To Duncan Beechcraft, Tarkio MO keeping c/r N504N.

    1969

    To Marco Corp, Chesterfield MO keeping c/r N504N.

    1970

    To Midvale Dental Supply Co, Clayton MO keeping c/r N504N.

    1977

    To Shawnee Airlines, Miami FL keeping c/r N504N.

    1979

    To Charles E. McElyea, Dania FL keeping c/r N504N.

    1991

    To Professional Aircraft Services keeping c/r N504N.

    October 1992

    To W. L. Mayerberg, Bartlesville OK keeping c/r N504N.

    9 June 1999

    To Kevin Brown, Drumright, OK keeping c/r N504N.

    2000

    To Southwest Aero Exchange, Owasso OK.
    Dismantled in their salvage yard.

    1 January 2008

    Certificate of airworthiness for N504N (C-45G, AF-427) issued.


    Photographer: Larry Green

    22 May 2017

    Civil registration, N504N, cancelled.
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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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