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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:C-45H Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:51-11835 USAF
    Construction Number:868
    Last Civil Registration:N213DE
    Compressed ID:Beech C-45H sn 51-11835 USAF cn 868...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hulman Regional Airport, Terre Haute, Indiana

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AT-11.

    Circa 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-9442.

    By 1942

    Transferred to 55th School Squadron, Albuquerque, NM.

    8 September 1942

    Damaged.
    Damaged in engine out forced landing at Albuquerque AB, NM.

    18 September 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 41-9442.

    1948

    Redesignated as T-11.

    1953

    Remanufactured as a C-45G.
    New construction number, AF-392, assigned to the airframe.

    1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-11835.

    Converted to a C-45H.

    8 July 1991

    To Kagel E. Smith, Brush Prairie, WA with new c/r N7313N (C-45H, 51-11835).

    28 October 1998

    To unknown owner with c/r C-GBJE (C-45H, AF392).
    To an unknown owner in Sidney, BC.

    5 May 2000

    To Adventure Aviation Inc, High Point, NC with new c/r N213DE.

    3 June 2000

    Certificate of airworthiness for N213DE (C-45H, AF-392) issued.

    Based at North Carolina Aviation Museum, Asheboro, NC.
    View the Location Dossier

    11 May 2010

    To Vintage Wings Aircraft Llc, Centerpoint, IN keeping c/r N213DE.

    Based at Hulman Regional Airport, Terre Haute, IN.
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    6 August 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Thunder Over Michigan air show in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

    6 August 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Thunder Over Michigan air show in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

    28 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Oshkosh

    22 July 2019


    Photographer: Nigel Roling
    Notes: At EAA Air Venture, Oshkosh WI 2019

    15 May 2021


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Illinois Valley Regional Airport, Peru, IL

    15 May 2021


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Illinois Valley Regional Airport, Peru, IL

    15 May 2021


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Illinois Valley Regional Airport, Peru, IL
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