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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:C-45H Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:51-11665 USAAF
    Construction Number:3228
    Last Civil Registration:G-BKRG
    Latest Owner or Location:Aviodrome, Lelystad Airport, Lelystad, Flevoland

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    Dates

    Event

    1942

    Constructed as a T-11.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-36848.

    Converted to a C-45G.
    New construction number, AF-222, assigned to the airframe.

    Circa 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 51-11665.

    December 1957

    Converted to a C-45H.

    1958

    To Tom Neal Oldsmobile Inc, Burbank CA: with new c/r N9072Z.

    From 1966 to 1972

    To Tom Neal, La Canada CA keeping c/r N9072Z.

    25 September 1974


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: At Phoenix Sky Harbour, Arizona

    1979

    To Aero Marine Systems, San Bernadino CA with new c/r N75WB.

    18 September 1982

    To Worth Bruce J and Deluca Rande D DBA Big Sky Films, Whitefish, MT keeping c/r N75WB.

    Used in the James Bond movie - Octopussy.

    From October 1982 to 2002

    To Beech Restorations, Bruntingthorpe, U. K.
    Markings added: 122351

    4 May 1983

    Civil registration, N75WB, cancelled.

    23 May 1983

    To Aces High Ltd, North Weald, Epping with new c/r G-BKRG (BEECH C45H, 51-116655).

    24 May 1986


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1986 photo at North Weald, Essex, UK

    12 May 1989


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at North Weald

    To Aces High, North Weald Airport, Harlow, Essex, England.
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    27 April 1998

    Civil registration, G-BKRG, cancelled.

    Markings Applied: 0-751

    October 2003

    To Aviodrome, Lelystad Airport, Lelystad, Flevoland.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: 22492/V

    15 June 2007


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Lelystad, Netherlands

    10 October 2010


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye

    26 March 2014


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: 2014 photo at Lelystad Aviodrome Museum


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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    European Military Out of Service 2014 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden

    Internet Sources
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America

    Individual Contributors
    John Bennett
    Thomas Delvoye
    Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
    Walter Schwarzenfeld

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