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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:Tradewind
    Construction Number:CA-176
    Last Civil Registration:C-FBCF
    Compressed ID:PacAero Tradewind cn CA-176 cr C-FB...
    Latest Owner or Location:British Columbia Aviation Museum, Victoria Airport (formerly Patricia Bay Airport), Victoria, British Columbia

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1952

    Constructed as an Expeditor 3NM.
    Beech 3NM CA 176

    4 February 1959

    New serial number assigned: A625 RCAF
    Instructional Airframe at Camp Borden.

    From 1962 to 1964

    To RCAF maintenance school, Jericho Bay, Vancouver BC:.
    As an Instructional Airframe.

    New construction number, CA-176, assigned to the airframe.

    September 1966

    Converted to a Tradewind by PacAero.

    1 September 1966

    To Government of British Columbia. Victoria, BC with new c/r CF-BCF.

    1974

    To BC Department of Highways, Victoria BC keeping c/r CF-BCF.

    1980

    To Raecom Air, Yellowknife NWT with new c/r C-FBCF.

    15 July 1982

    To Keewatin Air Limited, Winnipeg, MB with new c/r C-FBCF.

    15 July 1982

    To Keewatin Air Ltd, Rankin Inlet NWT keeping c/r C-FBCF.

    10 April 1984


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 1984 photo at Winnipeg - Believe it or not, this is a Beech 18. Originally delivered to RCAF in the 1950s, it was subsequently modified to ATE Westwind IV standard by the Province of BC. Later, while in Keewatin Air service, as shown here, it was toasted in a hangar fire and rendered uncertifiable. It now resides at the museum in Victoria

    4 May 1989

    Damaged.
    Damaged in hangar fire, Rankin Inlet NWT.

    December 1990

    To British Columbia Aviation Museum, Victoria Airport (formerly Patricia Bay Airport), Victoria, BC.
    View the Location Dossier

    4 October 1999

    Civil registration, C-FBCF, cancelled.

    15 September 2012


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At BC Aviation Museum in Victoria on Vancouver Island

    December 2018


    Photographer: Mike Kaehler
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