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    Airframe Family: Beech 55/56/58 Baron / T-42 Cochise
    Latest Model:T-42A Cochise
    Last Military Serial:65-12702 US
    Construction Number:TF-024
    Last Civil Registration:N242BT
    Compressed ID:Beech T-42A sn 65-12702 US cn TF-02...
    Latest Owner or Location:Friends of Army Aviation, Ozark, Alabama

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-42A.

    1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 65-12702.

    Transferred to 18th Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, NC.

    To Blackhawk Technical College, Janesville, WI with new c/r N5085Q.

    19 August 1988

    To Blackhawk Technical College, Janesville, WI with new c/r N242BT.

    11 April 1992


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Janesville, WI airport

    To Black Hawk Technical College, Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport (JVL), Janesville, WI.
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    May 2014

    To Jeff Bales, Greendale, WI.
    Jeff Bales comments (13 May 2014): I was a former Chief Warrant Officer, Pilot US Army 1967 to 1970 and a veteran of Vietnam Nam war.

    20 June 2014

    To unknown owner with c/r N242BT.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Greendale, WI.

    25 July 2014

    To Jeff Bales Llc, Greendale, WI keeping c/r N242BT.

    5 January 2017

    Certificate of airworthiness for N242BT (T42, TF-24) issued.

    1 June 2017

    To Friends of Army Aviation Ozark, Ozark, AL keeping c/r N242BT.

    Based at Friends of Army Aviation, Ozark, AL.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    RZJets
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Jeff Bales
    Glenn Chatfield
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