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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-14/15/18 / B-34 / C-56 C-60 / PV / R5O
    Latest Model:L-18-08
    Last Military Serial:12473 USN
    Construction Number:18-2358
    Last Civil Registration:N505R
    Compressed ID:Lockheed L-18-08 sn 12473 USN cn 18...
    Latest Owner or Location:March Field Air Museum, March ARB, Riverside, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a R5O-5.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 12473.

    To unknown owner with c/r N3968B.

    To unknown owner with c/r N1210.

    Converted to a L-18-08.

    To unknown owner with c/r N1210L.

    17 August 1970

    To Hawkins Powers Aviation Inc, Greybull, WY with new c/r N505R.

    11 October 1972

    To Hawkins and Powers Aviation Inc, Greybull, WY keeping c/r N505R.

    To Hawkins and Powers, South Bighorn County Airport, Greybull, WY.
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    Markings Applied: 833538

    1979

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    21 September 1979


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Hawkins and Powers Aviations Lodestar N505R retired at Greybull. Later, in 1983 it was restored, painted in USAAF wartime camouflage and ferried to March AFB, California in an aircraft exchange deal with the USAF Museum

    1983

    Loaned to March Field Air Museum, March ARB, Riverside, CA.
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    26 April 1984

    Civil registration, N505R, cancelled.

    By January 1988

    Markings Applied: 833538
    Finished in false markings.

    January 1988


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At March Field Museum, when it was still on base.

    October 1990


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At March Air Field Museum, when museum was on base.

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At March AFB.

    January 2002


    Photographer: Ross Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the March Field Museum in Riverside, CA.

    27 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At March Field Air Museum, Riverside, California

    27 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At March Field Air Museum, Riverside, California

    6 February 2022


    Photographer: Nigel Roling
    Notes: At March Field following its repaint
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     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Ruud Leeuw.com by Ruud Leeuw
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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