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    Airframe Family: Short SC-7 Skyvan / SD3 / 330 / 360 / C-23 Sherpa
    Latest Model:C-23C Sherpa
    Last Military Serial:94-00311 US
    Construction Number:SH.3644
    Last Civil Registration:N145Z
    Compressed ID:Short C-23C sn 94-00311 US cn SH.36...
    Latest Owner or Location:Neptune Aviation, Kingman, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SD3-60-200.

    24 February 1984

    To Short Brothers, Belfast, Northern Ireland with new c/r G-BLGE.

    16 April 1984

    First flight.

    3 May 1984

    Civil registration, G-BLGE, cancelled.
    Exported to USA.

    10 May 1984

    To Security Pacific Equipment Leasing Inc, San Francisco CA with new c/r N632KC.

    May 1984

    Leased to Wright Airlines, Cleveland, OH.

    1984

    To Shorts Air Lease keeping c/r N632KC.

    26 September 1984

    Returned from lease.

    November 1984

    Leased to Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Atlanta, GA.

    June 1988

    Returned from lease.

    December 1988

    Leased to Business Express, Westport, CT.

    March 1990

    Returned from lease.

    June 1990

    Leased to Simmons Airlines, Marquette County Airport, Negaunee, MI.

    16 May 1992


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 1992 photo at Chicago OHare operating American Eagle service

    November 1992

    Returned from lease.

    9 November 1994

    To Labrador Airways, Goose Bay with new c/r C-GLAJ.

    30 July 1996

    Civil registration, C-GLAJ, cancelled.
    Exported to the UK.

    31 July 1996

    To Gill Aviation Limited, New Castle Airport, UK with new c/r G-BLGE.

    11 July 1997

    Civil registration, G-BLGE, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    11 July 1997

    To Labrador Airways, Goose Bay with new c/r C-GLAJ.

    16 September 1997

    Civil registration, C-GLAJ, cancelled.
    Exported to USA.

    10 October 1997

    To Bombardier Services Corporation with new c/r N418SA.

    Converted to a C-23B+.
    New construction number, SH.3425/AK025, assigned to the airframe.
    Converted by Bombardiers West Virginia Air Center in Bridgeport, WV.

    August 1998

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 94-0311.

    August 1998

    Transferred to Company A, 249th Aviation Regiment, Detachment 3, ArNG, Rapid City Airport, SD.

    25 August 1998

    Civil registration, N418SA, cancelled.

    New serial number assigned: 94-00311 US

    Circa 2003

    Converted to a C-23C.

    16 June 2007


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA

    16 June 2007


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA

    November 2013

    Assigned to Henry Post AAF, Fort Sill, OK for storage.

    9 September 2014

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC).

    29 September 2014

    To US Forest Service Fire (and) Aviation, Boise, ID with new c/r N145Z.
    Aircraft remained stored at AMARC.

    27 May 2016

    Operated by Neptune Aviation, Kingman, AZ.
    Removed from storage and restored for active service.


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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    Military Aircraft Serials of North America by S. Mitchell and A Eastwood

    Internet Sources
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    RZJets
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

    Individual Contributors
    Glenn Chatfield

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