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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:Expeditor 3T
    Last Military Serial:HB109 RCAF
    Construction Number:5828
    Last Civil Registration:CF-ZWY
    Compressed ID:Beech Expeditor 3T sn HB109 RCAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fondation Aerovision Quebec (Quebec Air and Space Museum), Saint Hubert, Montreal, Quebec

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as an Expeditor 3T.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-35478.

    5 January 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n HB109.

    19 July 1960

    To Pratt and Whitney Canada, Montreal QUE: with new c/r CF-ZWY.

    1961

    Nose engine position installed at Downswview ONTfor PT6 turboprop air tests, test flown after mods.


    Photographer: Unknown

    June 1980

    Retired as an engine testbed.

    From July 1980 to 1998

    To Ecole Nationale of Aeronautique, Saint Hubert QUE.
    As an instructional airframe.

    1986


    Photographer: T.Panapolis

    1998

    To Fondation Aerovision Quebec (Quebec Air and Space Museum), Saint Hubert, Montreal, QC.
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     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
    Aerodata Quantum+
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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