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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:Expeditor 3NM
    Last Military Serial:1428 RCAF
    Construction Number:CA-003
    Last Civil Registration:C-FBCC
    Compressed ID:Beech Expeditor 3NM sn 1428 RCAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Kubys Aircraft Ltd, Kenora, ON

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an Expeditor 3NM.
    Beech 3N CA 3

    From 25 September 1951 to 20 October 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 1428.

    From 1962 to 1973

    To British Columbia Department of Highways, Vancouver BC with new c/r CF-BCC.

    December 1973

    Donated to Selkirk College, Castlegar BC - as a ground instructional trainer.

    1978

    To Harry Wilcox, Calgary, AB.

    1980

    To Buffalo Airways Ltd, Fort Smith NWT with new c/r C-FBCC.

    August 1987

    To ATA Construction Ltd, Norman Wells, NT keeping c/r C-FBCC.

    October 1988

    To OCTAN Resources Inc, Calgary AB keeping c/r C-FBCC.

    May 1990

    To Big Bird Sky Farmers Inc, Saint Albert ALTA keeping c/r C-FBCC.

    January 1992

    To William Cousineau/Wildcountry Airways, Red Lake ONT keeping c/r C-FBCC.

    18 July 1993


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 1993 photo at Red Lake, ON - ex RCAF 1428

    5 April 1994

    To Kubys Aircraft Ltd, Kenora, ON keeping c/r C-FBCC.

    2 August 2006


    Photographer: John W. Olafson
    Notes: C-FKEL and C-FBCC at Kubys -Two derelict Beech 18s awaiting their fate at Kubys yard. BCC on the right was once owned by the Province of BC and used in mapping surveys of the province

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