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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:Turboliner
    Construction Number:BA-110
    Last Civil Registration:N408TH
    Compressed ID:Volpar Turboliner cn BA-110 cr N408...
    Latest Owner or Location:Kestrel/hyline, West Des Moines, IA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an E18S.

    11 November 1955

    To Currey Sanders Aircraft Co with new c/r N38A.

    11 November 1955

    Certificate of airworthiness for N408TH (E18S, BA-110) issued.

    December 1955

    To Tecon Engineers Inc, Frankfort KY keeping c/r N38A.

    22 January 1957

    To Capitol Engineering Services, Frankfort KY keeping c/r N38A.

    19 June 1961

    To Blue Grass Airmotive Inc keeping c/r N38A.

    1 November 1962

    To Capitol Aviation, Springfield IL keeping c/r N38A.

    3 September 1963

    To Atkinson (and) Co, Indianapolis IN keeping c/r N38A.

    1 February 1967

    To Ransome Air Inc, Philadelphia PA keeping c/r N38A.

    23 April 1969

    Converted to a Turboliner by Volpar.

    23 April 1969

    To Ransome Air/Allegheny Commuter, Philadelphia PA with new c/r N352V.
    Operated with markings: Flagship North Phillie

    25 April 1976

    To Polar Airways, Anchorage-Merrill Field AK with new c/r N117PA.

    From 21 July 1978 to 1980

    To Soonair Lines, Tulsa, OK with new c/r N17SL.

    20 December 1979


    Photographer: Ellis Chernoff
    Notes: Portland, Maine being operated for FedEx

    31 May 1981

    To Troy Air Inc, Anchorage AK with new c/r N408TH.

    10 February 1984

    To Connie Kalitta Services, Willow Run MI keeping c/r N408TH.


    Photographer: Larry Green

    8 May 1984

    To American International Airways Inc, Lakeview, OR keeping c/r N408TH.

    1 January 1992

    To Kalitta Flying Service, Detroit-Willow Run MI keeping c/r N408TH.

    6 May 1999

    To Kitty Hawk Charters Inc, Morristown TN keeping c/r N408TH.

    29 January 2002

    To Kestrel/Hyline, Waukee, IA keeping c/r N408TH.

    17 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Ankeny, IA

    1 January 2011

    Certificate of airworthiness for N408TH (E18S, BA-110) issued.

    12 December 2015

    To Kestrel/Hyline, West Des Moines, IA keeping c/r N408TH.

    10 February 2016

    To Kestrel/hyline, West Des Moines, IA keeping c/r N408TH.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Beech 18: A Civil and Military History by R. K. Parmerter
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Ellis Chernoff
    Terry Fletcher
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