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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:C-45G Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:51-11653 USAF
    Construction Number:4141
    Last Civil Registration:N9306Z
    Compressed ID:Beech C-45G sn 51-11653 USAF cn 414...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1942

    Constructed as a T-7.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-1461.
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    Circa 1951

    Remanufactured as a C-45G.
    New construction number, MSN AF-210, assigned to the airframe.

    New construction number, AF-210, assigned to the airframe.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-11653.

    To Sage Airlines with new c/r N9306Z.

    1961

    To Avery Aviation, Greybull WY keeping c/r N9306Z.
    Used as an agricultural sprayer.

    From 1968 to 1988

    To Hawkins (and) Powers Aviation, Greybull WY keeping c/r N9306Z.

    1979

    Markings Applied: Sage Airline

    September 1979


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: A number of Beech 18 models, particularly AT-11s with bomb-bays, were used for aerial spraying in USA.N9306Z was a USAF disposals C-45G, retired at Greybull, Wyoming in September 1979, with faded Sage Air Lines titles

    Circa 1986

    Placed on display with Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Macon, GA.
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    2 March 1988

    Civil registration, N9306Z, cancelled.

    By April 1988


    Photographer: Wayne Gomes
    Notes: Photographed at the Museum of Aviation in Macon, GA.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    18 February 2007


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Macon, Georgia, United States
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2016 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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