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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:Expeditor 3T
    Last Military Serial:HB207 RCAF
    Construction Number:6220
    Last Civil Registration:N60GS
    Latest Owner or Location:Gustl Spreng Enterprises Inc, South Daytona, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as an UC-45F.
    Built in Wichita, KS. Was the first UC-45F built.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-35668.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n HB207 as a Expeditor II.

    8 May 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n HB207.

    Transferred to MacDonald Brothers.

    1952

    Converted to an Expeditor 3T.

    1968

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Canadian Air Force.

    To unknown owner with c/r N73895.

    From 1970 to 1976

    To North Cariboo Flying Service Ltd, Fort Saint John, BC with c/r CF-WJC.

    1979

    To Yukon Airways Ltd, Whitehorse, YT.


    Photographer: Michael D. Bellamy
    Notes: I owned and flew this very same aircraft in the Yukon

    From 1979 to 1980

    To Alkan Air Ltd, Whitehorse, YT with c/r C-FWJC.

    From 1980 to 1982

    To Smithers Air Service, Smithers, BC.

    From 1984 to 1996

    To Central Mountain Air, Smithers, BC.

    Civil registration N6409J reserved.

    March 1999

    Spotted in Arlington, WA, with C-FWJC still marked under the wing.

    28 September 1999

    To Peterson Randy, Sonoma, CA with c/r N6409J.

    13 October 1999

    Certificate of airworthiness for N6409J (C18S, 6220) issued.

    From December 1999 to 2001

    To Thomas E. Beard, Healdsburg, CA.

    From 23 April 2003 to 2009

    To Birch Entriken, Reno, NV.

    29 July 2009

    To BN Air Llc Series I, Paulden, AZ.

    26 March 2010

    To BN Air Llc Series I, Reno, NV.

    14 September 2012


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Reno Air Races at the Reno-Stead Airport, Nevada.

    14 September 2012


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Reno Air Races at the Reno-Stead Airport, Nevada.

    1 January 2013

    Certificate of airworthiness for N6409J (C18S, 6220) issued.

    11 September 2013


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    16 October 2018

    To Gustl Spreng Enterprises, South Daytona, FL with c/r N60GS (C18S, 6220).

    25 October 2018

    To Gustl Spreng Enterprises Inc, South Daytona, FL.

    30 March 2019


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: N60GS Beech C18S at the Staggerwing and radial reunion, Craig airport, Jacksonville


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