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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:D18S
    Construction Number:A-0156
    Last Civil Registration:C-GZCE
    Latest Owner or Location:Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, Ontario

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    Dates

    Event

    From Unknown to 15 October 1946

    Constructed as a D18C.

    15 October 1946

    To Florida Airways with new c/r NC80213.

    March 1949

    To Rausch Flying Service, Teterboro NJ with new c/r N80213.

    1949

    Converted to a D18S.
    Re-engined with Pratt and Whitney R-985 Wasps by Spartan Aero, Tulsa, OK.

    10 January 1951

    To Car Hovgardl, New York, NY keeping c/r N80213.

    1953

    To Rausch Aviation, Teterboro, NJ keeping c/r N80213.

    1953

    To unknown owner with c/r CF-HHI.

    24 November 1953

    Civil registration, N80213, cancelled.

    1954

    To International Nickel Co of Canada (INCO), Toronto ONT keeping c/r CF-HHI.

    1957

    Withdrawn from use.
    Retired.

    From 1957 to 1963

    Placed in storage.

    1963

    Fitted with floats.

    From 1963 to 1 January 1970

    Operated by Canada Nickel Air Services, Copper Cliff, ON.

    8 August 1970


    Photographer: Joan Turner
    Notes: At Ramsey Lake, Sudbury

    1974

    To Exmibal SA, La Aurora with new c/r TG-JIQ.

    November 1977

    To N. Colhoun, Lumsden SASK with new c/r C-GZCE.

    1980

    To Starline Aviation keeping c/r C-GZCE.

    29 January 1982

    To Canadian Warplane Heritage, Mount Hope, ON keeping c/r C-GZCE.

    Based at Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, ON.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: HB143, BAE

    18 August 1994


    Photographer: Dick Hopkins
    Notes: Photographed at the Wings of Eagles Air Show in Batavia, NY.

    22 June 2009


    Photographer: Dale Morton
    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
    World Military Out of Service 2008 by Andy Marden
    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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