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    Airframe Family: Beech 65/70/80/88 Queen Air / L-23F
    Latest Model:U-8F Seminole
    Last Military Serial:60-5388 US
    Construction Number:LF.22
    Last Civil Registration:N50AD
    Compressed ID:Beech U-8F Seminole sn 60-5388 US c...
    Latest Owner or Location:South Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-23F Seminole.

    1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 60-5388.

    1960


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: At Crissy Field

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as U-8F Seminole.

    By 1976

    Transferred to Fort Ord, CA.

    Circa 1985

    Excalibur Aviation Company modified this aircraft to Queen Air 800 standards with uprated engines, new engine mounts, three-bladed props, and other detail changes.

    By 1990

    Transferred to Pennsylvania Army National Guard Aviation Training Site, Fort Indiantown Gap, IN.

    By 10 March 1993

    To Washington State, Department of Transport, Seattle, WA with new c/r N50AD.

    Based at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA.
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    13 August 1994


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Boeing Field, Seattle, WA

    January 2004

    To South Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA keeping c/r N50AD.

    10 February 2012

    Civil registration, N50AD, cancelled.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Army Aircraft Since 1947 by Stephen Harding GC
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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