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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:E18S
    Construction Number:BA-437
    Last Civil Registration:N156H
    Compressed ID:Beech E18S cn BA-437 cr N156H
    Latest Owner or Location:Royal Air Freight Inc, Waterford, MI

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    Dates

    Event

    1957

    Constructed as an E18S.

    9 July 1959

    Certificate of airworthiness for N156H (E18S, BA-437) issued.

    9 July 1959

    To Beech Aircraft Corp, Wichita KS with new c/r N156H.

    1963

    To Flint Steel Corp, Tulsa OK keeping c/r N156H.

    1964

    To Cherokee Village Development Corp, Cherokee Village AR keeping c/r N156H.

    1966

    To Greensboro High Point Air Service, Greensboro NC keeping c/r N156H.

    By 1976

    To Apollo Airways keeping c/r N156H.

    1976


    Photographer: Tom Kalina
    Notes: At Chicago Midway

    1980

    To Professional Air Charter, San Francisco CA keeping c/r N156H.

    January 1983

    To Cocker Air Freight, Dallas TX keeping c/r N156H.

    1984

    To Onyx Aviation, Oklahoma City OK keeping c/r N156H.

    August 1985

    To Telford Aviation, Waterville ME keeping c/r N156H.

    December 1987

    To Barron Thomas Aviation, Dallas TX keeping c/r N156H.

    January 1988

    To Royal Air Freight Inc, Waterford, MI keeping c/r N156H.

    By 1991

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Derelict at Pontiac, MI.

    1 December 2008

    Civil registration, N156H, cancelled.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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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
     Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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