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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:C-45H Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:52-10927 USAF
    Construction Number:AF-857
    Last Civil Registration:N322X
    Compressed ID:Beech C-45H sn 52-10927 USAF cn AF-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Canadian Aviation Museum, Windsor Airport, Windsor, Ontario

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AT-7.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-33376.

    Converted to a C-45H.

    Circa 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-10927.

    From 1963 to 1966

    To Kelly West Indies Co, Cincinatti, OH with new c/r N322X.

    From 1969 to 1970

    To Quanama West Indies Co, Wakeman, OH keeping c/r N322X.

    To Ortners Air Service, Wakeman, OH keeping c/r N322X.

    28 July 1977

    To Active Air Inc, Wakeman, OH keeping c/r N322X.

    18 December 1978


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Ortners Airport, Wakeman Ohio

    23 December 1978


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver

    20 December 1979


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Looking west at Ortners Airport

    From 1979 to 1981

    To Quanama West Indies Co, Wakeman, OH keeping c/r N322X.

    16 January 1980


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Removing airframe - Ortners

    23 December 1981

    Civil registration, N322X, cancelled.

    By 9 November 1991

    To Leon Cleaver Collection, Norwalk, OH.
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    9 November 1991


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver

    12 September 2013

    To Ryan Kirk, Sarnia, ON.

    July 2014

    To Canadian Aviation Historical Society, Windsor Airport, Windsor, ON.
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    November 2018


    Photographer: Eric B.Miller
    Notes: I have purchased Beech AT-7 43-33376 remanufactured to C-45H 52-10927. Next spring (2019) I will be hauling her down to Project Warbird in Anderson SC. The plan is to restore her back to flying condition in original Air Force configuration.

    10 September 2021


    Photographer: Mackenzie Kiesel
    Notes: Found in a Cleveland storage unit. All the avionics are removed, the nose cone is gone, the entire wing structure is gone as is most of the empennage.

    10 September 2021


    Photographer: Mackenzie Kiesel

    To Canadian Aviation Museum, Windsor Airport, Windsor, ON.
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     Leon Cleaver
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