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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:D18S
    Construction Number:A-0361
    Last Civil Registration:N197L
    Compressed ID:Beech D18S cn A-0361 cr N197L
    Latest Owner or Location:American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, Dallas, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    1947

    Constructed as a D18S.

    28 March 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N197L (D18S, A-361) issued.

    20 May 1992

    To Ray C. Krottinger, Haslet, TX with new c/r N197L.

    Based at Vintage Flying Museum, Fort Worth Meacham Airport/Meacham Field, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.
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    Markings Applied: 80197

    6 August 1995


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Aurora, IL

    6 September 2016

    To American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, Dallas, TX keeping c/r N197L.

    29 October 2016


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At CAF Wings Over Dallas Airshow, Dallas Executive Airport, TX.

    10 April 2019

    To American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, Dallas, TX keeping c/r N197L.

    20 October 2019


    Photographer: Alan Wilson
    Notes: at the 2019 Wings over Houston Airshow at Ellington Airport, Houston, Texas
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    Credits
     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
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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