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    Airframe Family: Beech 50 Twin Bonanza / L-23/U-8/U-21 Seminole
    Latest Model:U-8D Seminole
    Last Military Serial:57-6043 US
    Construction Number:LH-15
    Last Civil Registration:N2755G
    Compressed ID:Beech U-8D sn 57-6043 US cn LH-15 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Allyn Onderdonk, Mills River, NC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-23A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 52-6176.

    Remanufactured as a L-23D-BH by Beech at Whichita, Kansas, USA.
    New construction number, RLH-15, assigned to the airframe.

    New construction number, RLH-15, assigned to the airframe.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 57-6043.

    1962

    Redesignated as U-8D.

    27 September 1978

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number UB038.

    By May 1990

    To World Aircraft Museum, Mercer Field, Calhoun, GA.
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    26 May 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    To Allyn Onderdonk, Mills River, NC with new c/r N2755G.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Robert Nichols
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