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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-14/15/18 / B-34 / C-56 C-60 / PV / R5O
    Latest Model:L-18-07
    Construction Number:18-2013
    Last Civil Registration:N555H
    Compressed ID:Lockheed L-18-07 cn 18-2013 cr N555...
    Latest Owner or Location:Dempsay Farm Airport, Rantoul, Kansas

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    Dates

    Event

    1940

    Constructed as a L-18-07.

    Civil registration OO-CAI reserved but not taken up.

    Civil registration VP-KHA reserved but not taken up.

    Civil registration XA- reserved but not taken up.

    Civil registration N5381 reserved but not taken up.

    21 December 1960

    Certificate of airworthiness for N555H (18-56, 2013) issued.

    17 May 1976

    To D and D Aero Inc, Rantoul, KS with new c/r N555H.

    Circa July 1978

    Charles Purvis comments (6 March 2022): In the summer of 1978 a faint outline of prior South Aftrican Airways livery could still be seen on fuselage.

    Based at Dempsay Farm Airport, Rantoul, KS.
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    2010


    Photographer: David Osborn
    Notes: At Rantoul - Highland Farm, KS

    28 December 2018

    Civil registration, N555H, cancelled.
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     Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Charles Purvis
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