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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:E18S
    Construction Number:BA-224
    Last Civil Registration:N766X
    Compressed ID:Beech E18S cn BA-224 cr N766X
    Latest Owner or Location:Columbus Zoo, Columbus, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an E18S.

    November 1956

    To Flint Steel Corp with new c/r N56H.

    29 November 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N766X (E18S, BA-224) issued.

    4 March 1960

    To Gwen C. Landry, East Troy WI with new c/r N962BH.

    From December 1971 to 1984

    To Semo Aviation Inc/Semo Airways, Malden MO with new c/r N166X.


    Photographer: Dan Grew

    28 July 1986

    To Hoganair Inc, Hamilton OH with new c/r N76HA.

    27 January 1987

    To The Eagle and The Hawks Inc, Leesburg, FL with new c/r N766X.

    22 July 1988


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: at Middletown, Ohio

    30 July 2008

    To Kurt M. Yearout, Middletown, OH keeping c/r N766X.

    2 May 2010


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Middletown - Hook Field, OH, USA

    26 May 2010

    Civil registration, N766X, cancelled.

    To Columbus Zoo, Columbus, OH.
    Displayed in the Heart of Africa exhibit at the Columbus Zoo in Columbus, Ohio.
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    23 May 2014


    Photographer: Anonymous
    Notes: N766X is now part of the Heart of Africa exhibit at the Columbus Zoo in Columbus, Ohio.
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