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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:D18S
    Construction Number:A-0085
    Last Civil Registration:N121SC
    Compressed ID:Beech D18S cn A-0085 cr N121SC
    Latest Owner or Location:North Bay Air Museum, Sonoma, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1946

    Constructed as a D18S.
    Beech D18S A-85

    6 February 1946

    To Southern Airways Co, AL with new c/r NC80025.

    From 6 June 1946 to Circa 1957

    To Spartan Mills/J. P. Stevens and Co with new c/r N80025.

    9 July 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N121SC (D18S, A-85) issued.

    7 August 1957

    To Spartan Mills/J. P. Stevens (and) Co with new c/r N121SC.

    29 November 1962

    To Emmett M. Manning, Calhoun Falls SC keeping c/r N121SC.

    7 November 1967

    To Jean N. Brannon, Greenville SC keeping c/r N121SC.

    18 June 1969

    To Harry V. Connolly, Brevard NC keeping c/r N121SC.

    17 June 1971

    To S. D. Braswell/Douglas Industries Inc, Spartanburg SC keeping c/r N121SC.

    28 February 1975

    To Occidental Land Research keeping c/r N121SC.

    From 5 August 1975 to 1995

    To Henry (Enrico) F. Bottieri/All American Air Freight, Santa Ana CA keeping c/r N121SC.

    19 October 1977

    To All American Airfreight Inc, Fountain Valley, CA keeping c/r N121SC.

    September 1979


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: N121SC was a 1946 Beech D18S model, It was on a remote WWII ramp at Chino, California in September 1979

    21 May 1982

    Civil registration, N121SC, cancelled.

    July 1987


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA (note broken tail)

    26 January 1993

    To All American Airfreight Inc, Fountain Valley, CA with new c/r N121SC.

    From 1996 to 2002

    Restored.
    At Chino, California.

    Markings Applied: Impossible Dream

    1 January 2009

    Certificate of airworthiness for N121SC (D18S, A-85) issued.

    17 May 2009


    Photographer: Todd Royer

    15 June 2010

    To All American Airfreight Inc, Fountain Valley, CA keeping c/r N121SC.

    21 February 2014

    To unknown owner with c/r N121SC.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Alameda, CA.

    27 May 2014

    To AMT Foundation, Alameda, CA keeping c/r N121SC.

    16 August 2017

    To AMT Foundation, Concord, CA keeping c/r N121SC.

    21 October 2022

    To unknown owner with c/r N121SC.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Sonoma, CA.

    11 March 2023

    To North Bay Air Museum, Sonoma, CA keeping c/r N121SC.
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