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    Airframe Family: Beech 17 Staggerwing / C-43/GB Traveler
    Latest Model:GB-2 Traveler
    Last Military Serial:33022 USN
    Construction Number:4821
    Last Civil Registration:N161K
    Compressed ID:Beech GB-2 sn 33022 USN cn 4821 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:John D. Walker, Neosho, MO

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as a GB-2.

    7 May 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 33022.

    Transferred to Charleston Joint Base/SO, SC.

    Transferred to Dahlgren NAS/NAF, VA.

    By 1946

    Transferred to Glenview Naval Air Station, IL.

    30 September 1946

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    Circa 1946

    To Civil Aeronautics Administration, Washington D. C with new c/r NC161.

    1952

    To C. C. Fisher, Roanoke, IN.

    23 February 1954

    Assigned civil registration: NC161K

    8 June 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N161K (D17S, 4821) issued.

    1958

    Crashed.
    Crashed in West Virginia.

    Restored.
    Aircraft was rebuilt.

    1971

    To C. C. Fisher, Huntington, IN with new c/r N161K.
    Owner moved.

    21 November 1988

    To Jim R. Porter, Chicago, IL keeping c/r N161K.

    Restored.
    Rebuilt by B. Yocke.


    Photographer: Ted and John Koston
    Notes: No loction for this photo - displayed with written permission of Koston Photography (via Flickr)

    12 June 1994


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Aurora, IL

    19 August 1998

    To Jim R. Porter, Hinsdale, IL keeping c/r N161K.

    27 April 2005

    To Evan Air Inc, Tamuning, GU keeping c/r N161K.

    1 January 2008

    Certificate of airworthiness for N161K (D17S, 4821) issued.

    14 May 2020

    To John D. Walker, Neosho, MO keeping c/r N161K.
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    Beech 17 Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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