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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:JRB-4 Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:90536 USN
    Construction Number:6999
    Last Civil Registration:N9659
    Compressed ID:Beech JRB-4 sn 90536 USN cn 6999 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Historic Aircraft Restoration Project, NAS Brooklyn, New York, New York

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as an UC-45F.
    Built at Wichita, KS.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-47109.
    Aircraft transferred to USN during construction as JRB-4.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 90536 as a SNB-2.

    By July 1944

    Remanufactured as a JRB-4.

    From 1969 to 1974

    To Navy, Mission, TX with new c/r N9659 (C18S).

    From 1973 to 1980

    To US Department. of Agriculture, Mission, TX keeping c/r N9659.

    15 May 1973

    Markings Applied: USDA
    Spotted at Uvalde-Garner Field, TX.

    16 October 1979

    Noted Douglas-Bisbee AZ on USDA flight line.

    22 February 1980

    To unknown owner with c/r N9659.
    Noted Douglas-Bisbee AZ white and orange, US Department of Agriculture titles, dropping chute under rear fuselage, with numerous other USDA Beech 18s.

    3 April 1982

    To unknown owner with c/r N9659.

    1990

    To unknown owner with c/r N9659.
    Sale reported by the USCR.

    From 1990 to 2013

    To US Marines Corps Aviation Museum, MCAS Quantico, VA.

    By May 1990

    To Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum, Quantico, Triangle, VA.
    View the Location Dossier

    By May 1990

    Markings Applied: 90536, SNB-5, MARINES
    In markings of an USMC SNB-5.

    18 May 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    December 1994

    Noted Quantico MCAS Museum.

    1994

    Loaned to USAFM, Dover AFB, DE.

    June 1995


    Photographer: A J Savage via Wayne Gomes Collection
    Notes: Photographed in Quantico, VA.

    To unknown owner with c/r N9659.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Ouantico, VA.

    1999

    To Historic Aircraft Restoration Project, NAS Brooklyn, New York, NY.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: 90536
    Displayed in Marines markings.

    24 March 2004

    To unknown owner with c/r N9659.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Ouantico, VA.

    14 July 2009


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
    Notes: Beech C-45F Expeditor (Bu90536 - 66-47109 -N9659) The National Museum of the Marine Corps has loaned this aircraft to the Historic Aircraft Restoration Project at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, NY, where a group of dedicated volunteers are painstakingly - with tiny paintbrushes one associates with model aircraft - restoring this beauty to her former glory.

    20 March 2013

    Civil registration, N9659, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Ouantico, VA.

    20 March 2013

    Civil registration, N9659, cancelled.
    Struck-off USCR.
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