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    Airframe Family: Beech 17 Staggerwing / C-43/GB Traveler
    Latest Model:UC-43 Traveler
    Last Military Serial:43-10852 USAAF
    Construction Number:4900
    Last Civil Registration:N53298
    Compressed ID:Beech UC-43 sn 43-10852 USAAF cn 49...
    Latest Owner or Location:Randy Shatz, Prescott, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as an UC-43.
    Built under contract AC.31386.

    7 May 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-10852.

    Transferred to Langley Army Air Field, VA.

    Transferred to Love Army Air Field, Dallas, TX.

    Transferred to Cincinnati Army Air Field, OH.

    7 January 1944

    Damaged.
    Accident at Bluethenthal Field, NC.

    4 July 1944

    Damaged.
    Accident at Phillips Field, MD, flown by David K. Hayward.

    2 April 1945

    Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

    From 1946 to 1955

    To Ross Hadley, Los Angeles, CA with new c/r NC53298.

    29 May 1946


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: NC-53298 was Hadleys second D-17S painted in this scheme. At Montebello, CA on May 21, 1946.

    1963

    To R. Gibson, Buena Park, CA with new c/r N53298.

    1966

    To Doctor J. Moore, Kirkwood, CA keeping c/r N53298.

    December 1968

    To Richard L. Perry, Hampshire, IL keeping c/r N53298.

    1974

    Restored.
    Aircraft rebuilt.

    July 1984


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide photographed at DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL

    12 September 1987


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide taken from Beech 18, northwest of Chicago.

    12 September 1987


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide taken from Beech 18, northwest of Chicago.

    12 September 1987


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide taken from Beech 18, northwest of Chicago.

    22 June 1999

    To Carl E. Pfeiffer Trustee, Gilbert, AZ keeping c/r N53298.

    10 May 2004

    To Maurice J. Moriarty, Glendale, AZ keeping c/r N53298.

    To Michael P. Moriarty, Glendale, AZ keeping c/r N53298.

    3 May 2017

    To Randy Shatz, Prescott, AZ keeping c/r N53298.
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    Beech 17 Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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     Glenn Chatfield
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