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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:Westwind III
    Construction Number:BA-163
    Last Civil Registration:N924J
    Compressed ID:Hamilton Aircraft Westwind III cn B...
    Latest Owner or Location:Dash Flying Service Llc, Chilton, WI

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1956

    Constructed as an E18S.

    31 May 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N42E (E18S, BA-163) issued.

    31 May 1956

    To Piedmont Aviation, Winston Salem NC: with new c/r N42E.

    From November 1956 to 1967

    To Food Fair Stores Inc, Miami FL keeping c/r N42E.

    6 March 1967

    To Longhorn Airways, Medford NJ with new c/r N4288.

    1969

    To Carolina Aircraft Corp, Fort Lauderdale FL keeping c/r N4288.

    September 1969

    Converted to a Westwind by Hamilton Aircraft.
    Converted at Long Beach CA to ATE Westwind I : Volpar trigear, PT-6A turbines, cargo door, picture window, two-piece windshield.

    16 February 1972

    To Hamilton Aircraft Co, Tucson AZ keeping c/r N4288.

    June 1972

    Converted to a Westwind III by Hamilton Aircraft.

    29 June 1972

    To SMB Stage Line Inc, Des Moines IA keeping c/r N4288.

    October 1972


    Photographer: Robert A. Burgess
    Notes: At John Glenn Columbus International Airport, Ohio

    5 September 1978

    To Blackhawk Airways, Janesville, WI keeping c/r N4288.

    15 February 1979

    To Blackhawk Airways, Janesville WI with new c/r N4288T.

    20 February 1980

    To Earl L. Christ, Racine WI with new c/r N924J.

    1981

    To Check-Air Inc, Milwaukee WI keeping c/r N924J.

    From 1984 to 1989

    To Mountain Air Cargo, Denver NC keeping c/r N924J.

    1 March 1989

    To Methow Aviation, Everett WA keeping c/r N924J.

    11 March 1993

    To Louise A. Baron, Saint Charles, IL keeping c/r N924J.

    21 July 2012


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: 2012 at Aurora, Chicago IL

    28 October 2013

    Civil registration, N924J, cancelled.

    26 December 2017

    To Dash Flying Service Llc, Chilton, WI with new c/r N924J.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Beech 18: A Civil and Military History by R. K. Parmerter
    Internet Sources
     Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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