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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:Expeditor 3T
    Last Military Serial:1418 RCAF
    Construction Number:8041
    Last Civil Registration:CF-KAK
    Compressed ID:Beech Expeditor 3T sn 1418 RCAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pacific Seaplanes Inc, Cedar, BC

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as a C-45F.
    Beech 3T 44 47633

    1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-47633.

    1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 1418 as a Expeditor II.

    1965

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

    Converted to an Expeditor 3T.

    1966

    To Keir Air Transport Ltd, Edmonton ALTA with new c/r CF-KAK.

    From 1970 to 1976

    To Theriault Air Services Ltd, Chapleau ONT keeping c/r CF-KAK.

    16 September 1977


    Photographer: Joan Turner

    1980

    To Ilford Riverton Airways, Winnipeg MAN keeping c/r CF-KAK.

    From 1983 to 1986

    To Ellair Ltd, Thompson MAN keeping c/r CF-KAK.
    Operated on floats.

    23 September 1997

    To 1218995 Ontario Inc (Dougs Flying Service), Ear Falls, ON with new c/r C-FKAK.

    14 February 2013

    Civil registration, CF-KAK, cancelled.

    12 November 2014


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: At Quennell Lake, BC -Quite a surprise to see this Beech 3T Expeditor here as the last sighting was in Manitoba decades ago when it looked down and out. She was formerly RCAF 1418

    8 May 2017

    To Pacific Seaplanes Inc, Cedar, BC keeping c/r C-FKAK.

    8 May 2017

    To unknown owner with c/r CF-KAK.

    25 October 2023


    Photographer: Don Olson
    Notes: Fulton Field in Kamloops, BC
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