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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:C-45G Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:51-11836 USAF
    Construction Number:1133
    Last Civil Registration:N8389H
    Latest Owner or Location:Poplar Grove Airmotive Inc, Poplar Grove, IL

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    Dates

    Event

    1941

    Constructed as an AT-11.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-21118.

    1953

    Remanufactured as a C-45G.
    New construction number, AF-393, assigned to the airframe.
    Beech C-45G 51-11836A.

    May 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-11836.

    August 1958

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Air Force.
    And stored at Davis Monthan.

    From 1963 to 1967

    To A. S. Wilstrom Inc, Skaneateles NY with new c/r N8389H.

    1968

    To Sundorph Aeronautical Corp, Cleveland OH keeping c/r N8389H.

    From 1969 to 1991

    To Cherokee Corp, Bedford OH keeping c/r N8389H.

    9 September 1991

    To Bar-Belle Productions Inc, Gleason, WI keeping c/r N8389H.

    From November 1992 to 1995

    Was based at White Waltham in the UK.

    8 September 1995

    To Poplar Grove Airmotive Inc, Poplar Grove, IL keeping c/r N8389H.

    4 May 2012

    To Poplar Grove Airmotive Inc, Poplar Grove, IL keeping c/r N8389H.

    21 September 2013


    Photographer: Mark Pasqualino
    Notes: At Poplar Grove

    September 2015


    Photographer: G.R.Dennis Price
    Notes: At Brodhead, Wisconsin
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