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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:D18S
    Last Military Serial:1441 RCAF
    Construction Number:A-0616
    Last Civil Registration:C-FCSN
    Compressed ID:Beech D18S sn 1441 RCAF cn A-0616 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Vancouver Island Air Ltd, Campbell River, BC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an Expeditor 3NM.

    25 September 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 1441.

    Circa 1952

    Converted to a D18S.
    New construction number, CA-016, assigned to the airframe.
    Beech D18S CA 16.

    1968

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Canadian Air Force.

    From 1970 to 1978

    To Slate Falls Airways Ltd, Sioux Lookout ONT with new c/r CF-CSN.

    From 1978 to 1985

    To Slate Falls Airways Ltd, Sioux Lookout, ON with new c/r C-FCSN.

    1986

    To Albert Wassaykeesick, Poplar Hill, ONT, keeping c/r C-FCSN.

    8 June 1988

    To Kyros (Albany River) Airways, Geraldton ONT keeping c/r C-FCSN.

    5 March 1990

    To Vancouver Island Air Ltd, Campbell River, BC keeping c/r C-FCSN.


    Photographer: Peter Killin
    Notes: on the dock at Simoom Sound

    22 May 2007


    Photographer: John Caswell

    April 2016

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Only fuselage remains - awaiting scrapping at Campbell River BC.
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