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    Airframe Family: Beech 50 Twin Bonanza / L-23/U-8/U-21 Seminole
    Latest Model:U-8G Seminole
    Last Military Serial:58-1360 US
    Construction Number:LH-187
    Last Civil Registration:N50KT
    Compressed ID:Beech U-8G sn 58-1360 US cn LH-187...
    Latest Owner or Location:Kugel-Strong Airport (03CO), Platteville, Colorado

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-23D.

    Circa February 1959

    Converted to a RL-23D-BH by Beech at Whichita, Kansas, USA.
    New construction number, LHC-6, assigned to the airframe.
    Converted while on the production line.

    Circa February 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 58-1360.

    September 1962

    Redesignated as RU-8D.

    From 1964 to Circa 1968

    Served in the Vietnam War.

    11 May 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: US Army Seminole seen at Love Field, Dallas, Texas in May 1973.

    11 May 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Another view of the US Army Seminole seen at Love Field, Dallas, Texas in May 1973.

    Circa 1975

    Converted to an U-8G.

    23 February 1979

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number UB058.

    12 November 1980

    New serial number assigned: 3U0008 MASDC
    Reserealed to Navy inventory.

    28 December 1982

    New serial number assigned: UB058 MASDC
    Returned to Army inventory.

    To unknown owner with c/r N50KT.

    To Kugel-Strong Airport (03CO), Platteville, CO.
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    26 October 2022


    Photographer: Chris Wood
    Notes: At Miller Farms shop Plateville CO
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     U.S. Army Aircraft Since 1947 by Stephen Harding GC
    Internet Sources
     U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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