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    Airframe Family: Beech 45/T-34 Mentor
    Latest Model:T-34C Turbo Mentor
    Last Military Serial:161842 USN
    Construction Number:GL-237
    Compressed ID:Beech T-34C sn 161842 USN cn GL-237...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-34C.

    Circa 1979

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 161842.

    Circa 1979

    Transferred to Training Squadron 27 (VT-27), Training Air Wing 4 (TAW-4), NAS Corpus Christi, TX.
    Operated with markings: 742, G-1842

    5 August 1989


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Reese AFB, TX.

    By October 1998

    Transferred to Training Air Wing 5 (TAW-5), NAS Whiting Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: 842, E-1842

    By October 2012

    Based at National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: On the Naval Aviation Museum ramp

    31 October 2012

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    By 2014

    Restoration started.
    In NNAM restoration area.

    By March 2020

    Placed on display.
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    An preliminary review of the submitted data is pending.
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     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
     Air History.org
    Airliners.Net
    The Free Library
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Tom Tessier
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