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    Airframe Family: Spartan 7W Executive / 8W Zeus / 12W Executive
    Latest Model:7W Executive
    Last Military Serial:KD102 RAF
    Construction Number:17 {1}
    Last Civil Registration:N17634
    Latest Owner or Location:James B. Savage, Gibsonia, PA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 7W.

    28 February 1939

    To Claude Drilling Company, Tulsa, OK with new c/r NC17630.

    31 December 1940

    To Polaris Flight Academy, Glendale, CA keeping c/r NC17630.
    Polaris was a flight training facility operated for the British Government prior to the United States involvement in WW-II.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n KD102.
    Purchased by the United Kingdom Government for use by the RAF.

    24 December 1942

    Transferred to RAF Ferry Command, Montreal, Canada.

    4 October 1945

    Returned to the USA and demilitarized for civilian use.

    28 February 1946

    To Texaco with new c/r N17630.

    3 November 1950

    To Spartan Aircraft Company keeping c/r N17630.

    Restored.
    Completely overhauled and upgraded by Spartan Aero Services.

    21 November 1952

    To Texaco keeping c/r N17630.

    18 January 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N17634 (7W, 17) issued.

    30 March 1957

    To Malcolm Jacobs, Saint. Louis, MO with new c/r N1MJ.

    14 April 1989

    To Lone Star Flight Museum, Houston, TX keeping c/r N1MJ.

    Operated by Lone Star Flight Museum, Scholes Field, Galveston, TX.
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    17 July 2008

    To James B. and Anita Savage, Gibsonia, PA with new c/r N17634.

    Based at Butler County Airport/K W Scholter Field, Butler, PA.
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    3 June 2014

    To James B. Savage, Gibsonia, PA keeping c/r N17634.

    16 July 2014


    Photographer: James Savage

    May 2016


    Photographer: G.R.Dennis Price
    Notes: At Blakesburg, Iowa

    22 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2017 EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh

    22 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2017 EAA Airventure at Oshkosh

    15 July 2018


    Photographer: James Savage

    11 May 2020

    To James B. Savage, Gibsonia, PA keeping c/r N17634.

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     Terry Fletcher
    James Savage
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