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    Airframe Family: Beech 17 Staggerwing / C-43/GB Traveler
    Latest Model:UC-43F Traveler
    Last Military Serial:42-49071 USAAF
    Construction Number:0305
    Last Civil Registration:N50959
    Compressed ID:Beech UC-43F sn 42-49071 USAAF cn 0...
    Latest Owner or Location:Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, McMinnville, Oregon

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UC-43F.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-49071.

    19 April 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N50959 (D17A, 305) issued.

    Based at Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, McMinnville, OR.
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    5 March 2004

    To unknown owner with c/r N50959.
    Sale reported to a new owner in McMinnville, OR.

    23 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 Photo at Evergreen Air and Space Museum

    15 August 2013

    Civil registration, N50959, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in McMinnville, OR.

    1 January 2019

    Certificate of airworthiness for N50959 (D17A, 305) issued.

    1 January 2019

    To unknown owner with c/r N50959.
    Sale reported to a new owner in McMinnville, OR.
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