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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:52-10715 USAF
    Construction Number:4963
    Last Civil Registration:N45SK
    Compressed ID:Beech C-45H sn 52-10715 USAF cn 496...
    Latest Owner or Location:Plane Fun Inc TR Trustee, Snellville, GA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AT-11.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-37666.

    February 1954

    Remanufactured as a C-45H.
    New construction number, AF-645, assigned to the airframe.

    1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-10715.

    By June 1961

    To unknown owner with c/r N9931Z.

    12 June 1961

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9931Z (C-45H, AF-645) issued.

    1963

    To Missouri University, Columbia MO keeping c/r N9931Z.


    Photographer: Chad Dee Morgan / Facebook

    From 1969 to 1972

    To Missouri University, Columbia MO with new c/r N792MU.

    From 1979 to 1982

    To Paul E. Hursh Inc, Amana IA with new c/r N792MA.


    Photographer: Chad Dee Morgan / Facebook

    January 1985

    To Thomas J. McNeal, Naperville IL keeping c/r N792MA.

    September 1987

    To Don J. Oglesbey, Fayetteville GA with new c/r N114DS.

    9 October 1990

    To Eastport Enterprises, Wilmington de keeping c/r N114DS.

    2 September 1991

    To Eastport Enterprises, Wilmington de with new c/r N45SK.

    22 January 2003

    To Historic Aeroplane Works Inc, Roanoke, IN keeping c/r N45SK.

    26 August 2006


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Indianapolis Air Show, Indianapolis IN

    26 August 2006


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Indianapolis Air Show, Indianapolis IN

    Based at Huntington Municipal Airport, Huntington, IN.
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    1 January 2012

    Certificate of airworthiness for N45SK (C-45H, AF-645) issued.

    26 July 2012


    Photographer: Todd Royer

    26 February 2013

    To Dee Farms Inc, Tallulah, LA keeping c/r N45SK.

    28 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2017 EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh

    28 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2017 EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh

    8 February 2019

    To Plane Fun Inc TR Trustee, Snellville, GA keeping c/r N45SK.
    FAA registration states turbo-prop engines.

    19 July 2019


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Janesville, WI

    October 2020

    Flew to new owners in Germany.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
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