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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:D18S
    Construction Number:A-0224
    Last Civil Registration:N38MS
    Compressed ID:Beech D18S cn A-0224 cr N38MS
    Latest Owner or Location:Raimun Charters Inc, Miami, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1946

    Constructed as a D18S.
    Beech D18S A-224

    6 August 1946

    To 20th Century Fox Film Corp, Hollywood CA with new c/r NC80243.

    Aircraft used to take movie actors Tyrone Power and Cesar Romero on a tour of South America.

    14 December 1949

    To Airplane Charter Corp with new c/r N80243.

    1 August 1950


    Photographer: Hufford collection
    Notes: At Del Mar, CA

    10 May 1954

    To Marlor Corp/Santa Monica Aviation CA keeping c/r N80243.

    20 October 1955

    To Williams Construction Co keeping c/r N80243.

    22 April 1958

    To Northern Construction Co/Northern Aircraft Sales Co, keeping c/r N80243.

    25 October 1961

    To San Carlos CA keeping c/r N80243.

    1 May 1965

    To Wabash Valley Aviation Co, Lawrenceville IL keeping c/r N80243.

    1 March 1971

    To Bush Aviation, Dania FL keeping c/r N80243.

    From 1974 to 1979

    To Marian Air Service Inc, Savannah, GA with new c/r N38MS.

    June 1974

    Spray system.

    June 1981

    To Keith R. Sanders, Port Huron, MI keeping c/r N38MS.

    23 October 1984

    To Garland Brown, Miami FL keeping c/r N38MS.

    April 1986


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Tamaimi-Kendall, Florida

    From 16 October 1986 to 1991

    To Raimun Charters Inc, Miami, FL keeping c/r N38MS.

    Aircraft impounded in Jamaica whilst being used for drug running.

    From 1988 to 1994

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Stored Kingston-Manley, Jamaica.

    17 April 2013

    Civil registration, N38MS, cancelled.
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     Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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     Terry Fletcher
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