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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:Turboliner
    Last Military Serial:52-10774 USAF
    Construction Number:AF-704
    Last Civil Registration:HB-GGI
    Compressed ID:Volpar Turboliner sn 52-10774 USAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Omni Aircraft Sales Inc, Washington, DC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-45F.

    Circa 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-87052.

    Circa 1947


    Photographer: Unknown Photographer

    By 1954

    Remanufactured as a C-45H.

    By 1954

    New construction number, AF-704, assigned to the airframe.

    1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-10774.

    October 1965

    To Air America with new c/r N9956Z (C-45H, AF-704).

    5 January 1967

    Converted to a Turboliner by Volpar.

    24 February 1976

    To Omni Aircraft Sales Inc, Washington, DC with new c/r N9956Z.

    11 November 1976

    Civil registration, N9956Z, cancelled.

    To unknown owner with c/r HB-GGI.
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     Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Max Sabin
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