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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:H18
    Construction Number:BA-721
    Last Civil Registration:N5959F
    Compressed ID:Beech H18 cn BA-721 cr N5959F
    Latest Owner or Location:Mid Atlantic Air Museum, Reading, PA

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1965

    Constructed as a H18.
    Beech H-18 BA-721

    17 February 1965

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5959F (H-18, BA-721) issued.

    November 1965

    To Brockway Glass Co, Brockway PA with new c/r N404X.

    1966

    To Albany Felt Company with new c/r N595AF.

    1969

    To Page Airways, Rochester NY keeping c/r N595AF.

    1970

    To Page Airways, Rochester NY with new c/r N5959F.

    From 1971 to 1999

    To Graham Manufacturing Co, Batavia NY keeping c/r N5959F.

    October 1992


    Photographer: Bob Parmerter

    24 May 1999

    To Sterling A. May, Dallas, TX keeping c/r N5959F.

    29 May 2003

    To C and L Kelley Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N5959F.

    2 February 2014

    To C and L Kelley Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N5959F.

    16 March 2016

    To Mid Atlantic Air Museum, Reading, PA keeping c/r N5959F.

    1 January 2017

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5959F (H-18, BA-721) issued.
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    unreviewed imported data.
    If you can verify the documented history or add to it with additional text and/or photos please feel free to do so by using the upload tool and the history editor.
    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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