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    Airframe Family: Beech 45/T-34 Mentor
    Latest Model:T-34B Mentor
    Last Military Serial:140937 USN
    Construction Number:BG-271
    Last Civil Registration:N34KT
    Compressed ID:Beech T-34B sn 140937 USN cn BG-271...
    Latest Owner or Location:Spruce Creek Airport, Daytona Beach, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    1956

    Constructed as a T-34B.

    24 December 1998

    Certificate of airworthiness for N34KT (D-45, BG-271) issued.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 140937.

    12 January 1999

    To Roy L. Stafford, Fernandina Beach, FL with new c/r N14RS.

    15 September 2000

    To Terry Ken, Daytona Beach, FL with new c/r N34KT.

    Based at Spruce Creek Airport, Daytona Beach, FL.
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    Markings Applied: 937

    17 March 2007


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Titusville FL

    10 April 2010


    Photographer: Mark Pasqualino
    Notes: At New Smyrna Beach, FL

    15 April 2010


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Sun-n-Fun. Lakeland FL

    11 March 2011


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: TICO Airshow, Titusville, FL. This photographer flew this airplane in April 1972 while undergoing training at NAS Pensacola.

    11 March 2011


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: TICO Airshow, Titusville, FL. This photographer flew this airplane in April 1972 while undergoing training at NAS Pensacola.

    5 November 2011

    Crashed.
    There were two fatalities. The accident occurred at the Wings Field Airport (96FL) Williston, FL, United States while taking off. The damage was substantial. Witnesses observed the airplane take off on a turf runway surrounded by trees. The airplane appeared to perform an exaggerated soft-field takeoff and became airborne within a couple of hundred feet. It then ballooned up and started to settle but then leveled off just above the runway and accelerated...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    28 August 2012

    Civil registration, N34KT, cancelled.
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    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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