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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:RC-45J Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:09771 USN
    Construction Number:434
    Last Civil Registration:N1040
    Compressed ID:Beech RC-45J sn 09771 USN cn 434 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    9 December 1940

    Constructed as a B18S.
    The last civil delivery prior to all Beech 18 production being to military orders for the duration of WWII.

    18 December 1940

    To Evening News Publishing Co, Dayton OH with new c/r NC1040.

    20 February 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 09771 as a JRB-2.
    Impressed.

    9 March 1942

    To Defense Supplies Corporation, Washington, DC with new c/r N1040.

    11 August 1942

    Civil registration, N1040, cancelled.

    1942

    Transferred to USMC Commanding General, Quantico VA.

    From 1942 to 1945

    Served as a utility plane with Marine Corps units at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Quantico, Virginia, and Naval Air Station (NAS) San Diego, California, including Marine Aircraft Groups (MAG) 15 and 35.

    From 1945 to 1948

    Following World War II it flew at NAS Corpus Christi, Texas, NAS Alameda, California, and NAS Anacostia, D.C, placed in storage in 1948.

    1950

    Transferred to MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

    May 1953

    Remanufactured as a SNB-5P.
    New construction number, N975, assigned to the airframe.

    From 1953 to 1972

    Served at NAS Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, NAS Glenview, Illinois, NAS Pensacola, Florida, and NAS Atlanta, Georgia.

    1962

    Redesignated as RC-45J.

    To Naval Air Technical Training Unit, NAS Pensacola, FL.

    29 June 1972

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    Markings Applied: 4P 9771

    November 1977


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Pensacola NAS

    10 November 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Pensacola Air Show

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35 mm slide

    27 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola NAS, Pensacola, Florida, United States

    8 October 2011


    Photographer: Matt Maranto
    Notes: Inside hanger one the new addition.

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, FL.
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Naval Aviation Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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