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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:AT-11 Kansan
    Last Military Serial:42-37208 USAAF
    Construction Number:3691
    Last Civil Registration:ZK-AHO
    Compressed ID:Beech AT-11 sn 42-37208 USAAF cn 36...
    Latest Owner or Location:Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT 2), Sir Keith Park Memorial Airfield, Auckland, Auckland, North Island

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as an AT-11.

    5 April 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-37208.

    12 April 1943

    Damaged.
    Wheels up landing at the end of its first flight !!.

    1944

    NZ Government lobbied US Government for release of an AT-11 from military production for military mapping contract by NZAM; large scale aerial mapping contract of Guadalcanal, Fiji, Samoa, Solomons and NZ.

    1944

    Repaired.
    Repaired at Beech plant Wichita, diverted to NZ - shipped to NZ, assembled Hobsonville AB.-and modified by Union Airways for survey duties at Palmerston North.

    From 1944 to 1980

    To NZ Aerial Mapping Co Ltd, Hastings with new c/r ZK-AHO.
    Based out of Bridge Pa at Hastings.

    3 July 1944

    Departed Whenuapai for aerial survey of Fiji.

    24 October 1944

    Departed Whenuapai for aerialsurvey of Norfolk Island.

    1 June 1954

    Departed Whenuapai for large aerial survey of Samoa.

    7 February 1963

    Arrived Wellington from Hastings, for aerial mapping work.

    24 June 1966

    Dep. Kaitaia-Norfolk Island for survey of Norfolk Island.

    1973


    Photographer: NZCIVAIR
    Notes: 1973 photo at Wellington, NZ

    Circa 1977


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 1977 photo at RNZAF base at Wigram

    To Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT 2), Sir Keith Park Memorial Airfield, Auckland, Auckland, North Island.
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    Circa 1986


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: Circa 1986 photo at MOTAT, Auckland

    14 March 2016


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland, NZ

    23 October 2017


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: ZK-AHO at MOTAT, Auckland, New Zealand
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