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    Airframe Family: Beech 17 Staggerwing / C-43/GB Traveler
    Latest Model:UC-43 Traveler
    Last Military Serial:43-10855 USAAF
    Construction Number:4903
    Last Civil Registration:N663
    Compressed ID:Beech UC-43 sn 43-10855 USAAF cn 49...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pikes Peak Flyers LLP, Colorado Springs, CO

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    Dates

    Event

    26 April 1943

    Constructed as an UC-43.

    31 May 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-10855.

    1943

    Transferred to Biggs Field, TX.

    1943

    Transferred to Long Beach Army Air Field, CA.

    1943

    Transferred to Gore Field, MT.

    1943

    Transferred to Davis Monthan AAF, AZ.

    1943

    Transferred to Tucson Army Air Base, A.

    1943

    Transferred to Albany AFB, GA.

    24 December 1943

    Involved in an incident.
    Accident at Bismarck.

    10 September 1945

    Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

    To unknown owner with c/r NC322.

    1967

    To C. H. H. and W. Lubbock, TX with new c/r N663.

    From 1967 to 1968

    Restored.

    25 April 1968

    Certificate of airworthiness for N663 (D17S, 4903) issued.

    1970

    To Maurice Sonny Clavel, Lakeland, FL keeping c/r N663.

    1971

    To W. W. Cantrel, Lubbock, TX keeping c/r N663.

    4 April 1974

    To Maurice Sonny Clavel, Wauchula keeping c/r N663.

    Circa 1974


    Photographer: Larry Johnson Collection

    11 November 1996


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Beech D17S Staggerwing as NC663, a former UC-43 Traveller 43-10855 as seen at Lakeland, Florida in November 1996.

    12 March 2003

    To Hazel B. Clavel, Wauchula, FL keeping c/r N663.

    7 March 2013

    To Poplar Grove Airmotive Inc, Poplar Grove, IL keeping c/r N663.

    10 January 2024

    To unknown owner with c/r N663.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Colorado Springs, CO.

    4 February 2024

    To Pikes Peak Flyers LLP, Colorado Springs, CO keeping c/r N663.
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     Beech 17 Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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