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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:Westwind
    Last Military Serial:52-10672 USAF
    Construction Number:1286
    Last Civil Registration:TF-JFA
    Compressed ID:Hamilton Aircraft Westwind sn 52-10...
    Latest Owner or Location:Flugsfanid Museum, Akureyi, Iceland, Keflavik International Airport, Keflavik, Iceland

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    Dates

    Event

    1941

    Constructed as an AT-11.

    Circa 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-27441.

    18 September 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 41-27441.

    11 June 1948

    Redesignated as T-11.

    Circa 1952

    Remanufactured as a C-45H.
    New construction number, AF-602, assigned to the airframe.

    1954


    Photographer: 146th Photo Lab
    Notes: 146th Fighter Interceptor Wing, 195th Utility Flight 1954 - Dec 1960

    1954


    Photographer: 146th Photo Lab
    Notes: 146th Fighter Interceptor Wing, 195th Utility Flight 1954 - Dec 1960

    1954


    Photographer: 146th Photo Lab
    Notes: 146th Fighter Interceptor Wing, 195th Utility Flight 1954 - Dec 1960

    8 January 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-10672.

    December 1960

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Air Force.
    Retired from the Air Force.

    July 1962

    To unknown owner.
    Sold off from USAF Boneyard.

    11 October 1964

    To Nordurflug, Akureyri with new c/r TF-JME.

    October 1964


    Photographer: Unknown

    9 September 1968

    To Tryggvi Helgasm, Akureyri keeping c/r TF-JME.

    Converted to a Westwind by Hamilton Aircraft.

    From 1975 to 1978

    To Flugfelag Nordurlands, Akureyr keeping c/r TF-JME.

    From 22 May 1978 to 29 December 1984

    To Flugfelag Nordurlands/Nordlandair with new c/r TF-JMP.

    From 1998 to 2006

    To Johannes A. Fossdal, Akureyri with new c/r TF-JFA.

    2007

    To Flugsfanid Museum, Akureyi, Iceland, Keflavik International Airport, Keflavik, Iceland.
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    7 August 2019


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At Flugsafn Islands, Iceland Aviation Museum, Akureyri, Iceland

    7 August 2019


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost

    July 2020

    To unknown owner with c/r TF-JFA.
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