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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:C-45H Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:52-10731 USAF
    Construction Number:5005
    Last Civil Registration:CF-OME
    Compressed ID:Beech C-45H sn 52-10731 USAF cn 500...
    Latest Owner or Location:Greenwood Aviation Military Museum, Greenwood, Nova Scotia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-11.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-37708.

    1954

    Remanufactured as a C-45H.
    Beech C-45H AF 662.

    1954

    New construction number, AF-662, assigned to the airframe.

    1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-10731.

    To unknown owner with c/r N9862Z.

    30 April 1962

    To Aero American Corp, Cincinnati, OH with new c/r N9862Z.

    August 1962

    To unknown owner with c/r CF-OME.

    21 August 1962

    Civil registration, N9862Z, cancelled.

    1965

    To Aklavik Flying Service, Inuvik NWT keeping c/r CF-OME.

    Circa 22 November 1972

    Certificate of airworthiness for CF-OME (C-45H, ?AF 662) issued.

    1974

    To Mike Hackman Aircraft Sales, Edmonton ALTA keeping c/r CF-OME.

    1992

    To Stan Reynolds/Reynolds Alberta Museum, Wetaskiwin ALTA keeping c/r CF-OME.

    1992

    To Reynolds Alberta Museum, Wetaskiwin, AB.
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    2000

    Civil registration, CF-OME, cancelled.

    2000

    Noted at the Wetaskiwin Museum - stored in an outside compound.

    2017

    To Greenwood Aviation Military Museum, Greenwood, NS.
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    Circa October 2017


    Photographer: Malcolm Uhlman
    Notes: Greenwood Military Aviation Museum, 14 Wing Greenwood, N.S. FYI.this is how our latest restoration project arrived from Alberta last fall, on a C-17

    13 December 2018


    Photographer: Malcolm Uhlman
    Notes: Next Restoration Project

    13 December 2018


    Photographer: Malcolm Uhlman
    Notes: Volunteers for the Restoration project


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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    Beech 18: A Civil and Military History by R. K. Parmerter

    Internet Sources
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Transport Canada

    Individual Contributors
    Terry Fletcher

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