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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:UC-45J Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:51031 USN
    Construction Number:3821
    Last Civil Registration:N86416
    Compressed ID:Beech UC-45J sn 51031 USN cn 3821 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Heliservices, Falcon Field, Phoenix, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SNB-1.

    24 June 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 51031.

    28 June 1943

    Delivered to an unknown unit.

    From September 1943 to January 1944

    Transferred to ATR CASU 22.

    February 1944

    Transferred to CASU 24.

    March 1944

    Transferred to CASU 29.

    1944

    Transferred to ARTU Cape May.

    From 22 April 1945 to June 1945

    Transferred to ARTU CASU.

    From July 1945 to January 1946

    Transferred to Faetu Lant.

    Stored pending reconditioning.

    From February 1946 to December 1946

    Restored.
    Reconditioned at Corpus Christi.

    From January 1947 to February 1947

    To Pool A and T Corpus Christi.

    From March 1947 to August 1948

    To NART Squantum.

    May 1949

    Converted to a SNB-5.
    New construction number, N284, assigned to the airframe.
    Remanufactured by Beech.

    By 7 September 1956

    Markings Applied: 031, JM

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as TC-45J.

    14 October 1964

    Redesignated as UC-45J.

    From 1972 to By October 1973

    Transferred to MASDC, Davis Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.

    By 19 September 1974

    To Hamilton Aircraft Co, Tucson, AZ.

    Assigned civil registration: N86416

    Markings Applied: 031

    To Heliservices, Falcon Field, Phoenix, AZ.
    View the Location Dossier

    10 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    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
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Andy Marden
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