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    Airframe Family: Beech 17 Staggerwing / C-43/GB Traveler
    Latest Model:GB-2 Traveler
    Last Military Serial:33024 USN
    Construction Number:4823
    Last Civil Registration:N991VB
    Compressed ID:Beech GB-2 sn 33024 USN cn 4823 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Plane Fun Inc TR Trustee, Snellville, GA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a GB-2.

    From 25 May 1943 to 30 September 1946

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 33024.

    Transferred to NAS Jacksonville, FL.

    Transferred to NAS Banana River, FL.

    30 September 1946

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.
    SOC at NAS Jacksonville, FL.

    By 1959

    To Capt. Donald R. Quinn (USAF), Inver Grove Heights, MN with new c/r N9113H.

    Moved to Wichita, KS, then to St. Paul, MN and based at Lake Eleno and Albrook AFB. For four years it was based in Panama Canal Zone and flow extensively in South America.

    1974

    Restored.

    26 December 1990

    To Weldon W. Sellers, Griffin, GA keeping c/r N9113H.

    19 May 1993

    Civil registration, N9113H, cancelled.

    20 May 1993

    To Stewart James Ellis, Palins Holiday Park, Morfa Avenue, Kinmel Bay, Rhyl with new c/r G-BUXU (BEECH D17S, 4823).

    13 August 2004

    Civil registration, G-BUXU, cancelled.

    21 October 2004

    To Vital Francis, L isle Adam, Aeroport de Paris with new c/r F-GUZZ (D17s, 4823).
    Based at Persan Beaumont.

    Based at Persan-Beaumont Airport, Bernes-Sur-Oise, Ile-De-France.
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    13 June 2014


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: at St.Yan Airport, Burgundy, France

    2 June 2022


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Bienenfarm SuF 2022

    28 November 2023

    To Plane Fun Inc TR Trustee, Snellville, GA with new c/r N991VB.

    3 January 2024

    Certificate of airworthiness for N991VB (D17S, 4823) issued.
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     Beech 17 Production List
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    DGCA Civil Aircraft Register (France)
    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
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