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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:SNB-5P Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:23793 USN
    Construction Number:5887
    Last Civil Registration:N5646
    Compressed ID:Beech SNB-5P sn 23793 USN cn 5887 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Central Air Service, Marana Northwest Regional Airport (formerly Avra Valley Airport), Marana, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SNB-2C.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 23793.

    Converted to a SNB-3.

    Converted to a SNB-5P.

    19 May 1969

    To Aero Vocational Tech School, Thief River Falls, MN with new c/r N5646.

    12 July 1977

    Civil registration, N5646, cancelled.

    To Central Air Service, Marana Northwest Regional Airport (formerly Avra Valley Airport), Marana, AZ.
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    21 March 2007


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Marana Northwest Regional Airport, AZ, USA

    8 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    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
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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