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    Airframe Family: Douglas B-18/B-22/C-58/DB Bolo / Digby
    Latest Model:B-18B Bolo
    Last Military Serial:37-0505 USAAF
    Construction Number:2505
    Last Civil Registration:N18AC
    Compressed ID:Douglas B-18B sn 37-0505 USAAF cn 2...
    Latest Owner or Location:McChord Air Museum, McChord Field, Tacoma, Washington

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    Dates

    Event

    1938

    Constructed as a B-18A.

    From 21 November 1938 to 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 37-0505.

    January 1943

    Converted to a B-18B.

    1950

    To D. Eugene Walsh.

    1950

    To Tyler Flight Service Corp, Westminster, MD (later Long Island, NY) with new c/r N67947.

    1950


    Photographer: Frank Flack
    Notes: 1950. Douglas B-18 of Ken Tyler Flight Service gassing up at La Grande, Oregon air field. DDT insecticide capacity of this plane is 1,000 gallons. Was used on Elgin Unit of the Spruce Budworm Project. Umatilla National Forest, Oregon

    From 1963 to 1966

    To Aero Service of Dalhart, Dalbart, TX keeping c/r N67947.

    From 19 October 1966 to 1969

    To Federacion Regional de Sociedades Cooperativas de la Industria Pesquera de Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California with new c/r XB-LAJ.

    8 February 1971

    To Larkin Aircraft Corp, Santa Cruz, CA, keeping c/r XB-LAJ.

    27 March 1971

    To Harold L. Freeman/Aero-Services International, Tucson, AZ keeping c/r XB-LAJ.

    Civil registration N18AC reserved but not taken up.

    From April 1971 to 1972

    To Tucson Air Museum Foundation of Pima County, Tucson, AZ,.

    Circa 1972


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Pima Museum

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    From 1973 to 1982

    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ.

    23 September 1974


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: At Pima County Air Museum

    9 April 1976

    To Tucson Air Museum Foundation of Prima, Tucson, AZ with new c/r N18AC (B18-B SPECIAL, 2505).

    Loaned to McChord AFB, 62 AW/CVM, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA.

    Placed on display with McChord Air Museum, McChord Field, Tacoma, WA.
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    21 July 1977

    Civil registration, N18AC, cancelled.

    19 July 2008


    Photographer: David Lednicer
    Notes: One of five Bolos left, out of 348 built. On display at the McChord Air Museum at Tacoma, WA.
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