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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:RC-45J Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:29645 USN
    Construction Number:7817
    Last Civil Registration:N5245
    Compressed ID:Beech RC-45J sn 29645 USN cn 7817 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Indian Hills Community College - Aviation Pilot Training, Ottumwa Industrial Airport, Ottumwa, Iowa

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SNB-2C.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 29645.


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Taken at NAS Alameda, California, USA

    Redesignated as RC-45J.

    1 August 1969

    To Merged Areaxv Community College, Ottumwa, IO with new c/r N5245.

    To Indian Hills Community College, Ottumwa, IA keeping c/r N5245.

    August 2003

    Based at Indian Hills Aviation Center, Ottumwa Industrial Airport, Ottumwa, IA.
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    8 May 2021

    Civil registration, N5245, cancelled.

    To Indian Hills Community College-Aviation Pilot Training, Ottumwa Industrial Airport, Ottumwa, IA.
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
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    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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     John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
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