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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:Expeditor II
    Last Military Serial:HB294 RAF
    Construction Number:7084
    Last Civil Registration:N79924
    Compressed ID:Beech Expeditor II sn HB294 RAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Arabian American Oil Co, New York, NY

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C18S.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-47166.

    Redesignated as Expeditor II.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n HB294.

    25 July 1946

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.
    Returned to USAAF at Payne Field, Cairo, Egypt.

    16 October 1947

    To Arabian-American Oil Company (Aramco), Dharan, Saudi Arabia with new c/r NC79924.


    Photographer: R.Y.Richie

    29 January 1954

    To Arabian American Oil Co, New York, NY with new c/r N79924 (C18S, 7084).

    27 October 1954

    Civil registration, N79924, cancelled.


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