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    Airframe Family: Beech 17 Staggerwing / C-43/GB Traveler
    Latest Model:GB-2 Traveler
    Last Military Serial:32873 USN
    Construction Number:6700
    Last Civil Registration:N9459H
    Compressed ID:Beech GB-2 sn 32873 USN cn 6700 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UC-43.
    Manufactured under contract AN.31386.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 23688 {1}.
    Originally ordered as a GB-2 for USN as BuNo 23688, but NTU.

    26 February 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 44-67723.

    1 March 1944

    Transferred to Fort Dix AAB, NJ.
    Staged here for Lend-Lease to Britain.

    17 April 1944

    Transported by ship.
    Departed USA for UK.

    1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n FT474 as a Traveler I.

    Circa 1946

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 32873 as a GB-2.

    By July 1946

    Transferred to Norfolk NAS, VA.

    31 July 1946

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    5 June 1947

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Navy.
    Declared obsolete by the Air Ministry.

    31 December 1955

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9459H (D17S, 6700) issued.

    1963

    To P. L. Parker, Los Angeles, CA with new c/r N9459H.

    1966

    To R. Musser, Ekalaka, MT keeping c/r N9459H.

    1971

    To W. C. Greenwald, Carson City, NV keeping c/r N9459H.

    July 1978

    To James R. Rollison, Vacaville, CA keeping c/r N9459H.

    Restored.

    Markings Applied: U.S. NAVY, 23688, GB-2
    Painted in original ordered ID as BuNo 23688.

    1984

    To National Museum of Naval Aviation, NAS Pensacola, FL.

    10 September 1985

    To Roy D. Reagan, Chico, CA keeping c/r N9459H.

    1987

    Loaned to Patriots Point Naval and Marine Museum (USS Yorktown), Mount Pleasant, Charleston, SC.
    Displayed on hangar deck.
    View the Location Dossier

    30 June 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Circa July 1990

    Returned from loan to National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
    View the Location Dossier

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Displayed gear down on the floor

    27 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola NAS, Pensacola, Florida, United States

    8 October 2011


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    7 July 2017

    Civil registration, N9459H, cancelled.
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     Beech 17 Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Naval Aviation Museum
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
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