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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:C18S
    Last Military Serial:43-35832 USAAF
    Construction Number:6569
    Last Civil Registration:CF-PJG
    Compressed ID:Beech C18S sn 43-35832 USAAF cn 656...
    Latest Owner or Location:Calm Air Ltd, Lynn Lake, MAN

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as an UC-45F.

    1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-35832.

    Redesignated as C18S.

    27 December 1962

    To Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO with new c/r N6415C (C18S, 6569).

    17 July 1963

    Civil registration, N6415C, cancelled.

    To Rev. W. Leising/Oblate Fathers, Fort Williams ONT with new c/r CF-PJG.

    1969

    To Joseph Flemming, Yellowknife NWT keeping c/r CF-PJG.

    1970

    To Calm Air Ltd, Lynn Lake, MAN keeping c/r CF-PJG.

    6 January 1971

    Involved in an incident.
    Landed gear-up on snow strip Eldon Lake, Manitoba. This was the ice strip made by Calm Air so the plane could use the maintenance shop.

    6 January 1971


    Photographer: Hugh MacCullum

    21 August 1971

    Involved in an incident.
    Tipped on nose during takeoff from a sand strip along side of Reindeer Lake, SASK.

    Stripped for spares and dumped in the lake.

    2016


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: The picture was taken by King of Obsolete June 26 2016 when we recovered the Beech 18 after being stripped and dump in the lake after the wheels up landing on the sand strip august 21 1971.

    31 January 2020


    Photographer: Joey Barnes
    Notes: the wing for Beech 18 CF-PJG on display in the Kingdom in Lynn Lake Manitoba as the final resting spot for this plane.

    31 January 2020


    Photographer: Joey Barnes
    Notes: the Beech 18 CF-PJG final resting spot in the Kingdom in Lynn Lake Manitoba. the plane can be seen from the highway PR 391.
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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
     Joey Barnes
    Terry Fletcher
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