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    Airframe Family: Beech 45/T-34 Mentor
    Latest Model:T-34A-BH Mentor
    Last Military Serial:55-0182 USAF
    Construction Number:G-739
    Last Civil Registration:N18255
    Compressed ID:Beechcraft T-34A-BH sn 55-0182 USAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Viper Aviation Inc, Montecito, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-34A-BH by Beechcraft at Wichita, KS.

    Circa 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 55-0182.

    27 July 1990

    Certificate of airworthiness for N18255 (A45, G-739) issued.

    4 August 1998

    To Viper Aviation Inc, Simi Valley, CA with new c/r N18255.

    Based at Camarillo Airport, Camarillo, CA.
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    Markings Applied: Ginny Sue, ED

    4 August 1998

    To Viper Aviation Inc, Montecito, CA keeping c/r N18255.

    28 February 2014


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At the Cactus Fly-In at Casa Grande,Arizona

    11 August 2017

    To Viper Aviation Inc, Montecito, CA keeping c/r N18255.
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