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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:D18S
    Construction Number:A-0264
    Last Civil Registration:N555M
    Compressed ID:Beech D18S cn A-0264 cr N555M
    Latest Owner or Location:Mustang Aviation Inc, Dallas, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    1947

    Constructed as a D18S.
    BEECH D18S A-264

    1947

    To J. D. Cummings TX with new c/r NC80354.
    Operated with markings: The Pipe Liner


    Photographer: San Marcos Daily Record Archives
    Notes: Mentioned on the photograph (but not specifically identified ) -Ernest E. Cummings, James Dell Cummings and Ora Belle Frager Cummings


    Photographer: San Marcos Daily Record Archives
    Notes: At San Marcos, TX

    To J. D. Cummings/Crutcher-Rolfs-Cummings, Inc, (CRC) with new c/r N80354.

    31 July 1956

    To Mustang Aviation Inc, Dallas, TX with new c/r N555M.

    29 June 1970

    Civil registration, N555M, cancelled.


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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

    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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