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    Airframe Family: Chase (Fairchild) C-123 Provider
    Latest Model:C-123K Provider
    Last Military Serial:54-0615 USAF
    Construction Number:20064
    Last Civil Registration:N546S
    Compressed ID:Chase C-123K sn 54-0615 USAF cn 200...
    Latest Owner or Location:James R. Blumenthal, Kingman, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-123B-6-FA by Fairchild at Hagerstown, Maryland, USA.

    Circa 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 54-0615.

    Converted to a C-123K.

    29 January 1980

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number CP0045.

    From 28 January 1986 to By 1987

    To Sherman Aircraft Sales, West Palm Beach, FL with new c/r N546S.

    This airframe may have been part of a an operation in Africa known as Chieftain Air and was supposedly used for covert operations in Africa in the late 1980s.

    July 1988

    To Deutsche Aviation Inc, Tulsa, OK.

    July 1988


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Mojave, CA.

    From December 1988 to By 1990

    To Fowler Aeronautical Service, Van Nuys, CA.

    6 February 1991

    To James R. Blumenthal, Kingman, AZ keeping c/r N546S.

    September 1992


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Mojave, CA

    Based at Aero Flite, Kingman Airport, Kingman, AZ.
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    27 May 1994

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR546S (C-123K, 54-615) issued.

    9 August 1994

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX546S (C-123K, 54-615) issued.

    July 1997


    Photographer: David A. Montgomery
    Notes: Painted briefly in Shell colours for the making of a 1997 TV commercial in which it appears to be refuelling, from the air, a red Ferrari racing car being driven at speed along a Mojave Desert highway

    August 1997

    11 May 2004


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: N546S, still with white upper fuselage, at Kingman, AZ

    1 January 2009

    To James R. Blumenthal, Kingman, AZ keeping c/r N546S.

    6 June 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: at Kingman

    11 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    10 January 2015


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Kingman, AZ.

    18 August 2023

    To James R. Blumenthal, Kingman, AZ keeping c/r N546S.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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