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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:Expeditor 3NM
    Last Military Serial:5195 RCAF
    Construction Number:A-0917
    Last Civil Registration:C-GGGF
    Compressed ID:Beech Expeditor 3NM sn 5195 RCAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:666969 B. C. Ltd, Nanaimo, BC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an Expeditor 3NM.

    26 February 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 1581.

    From Unknown to 1968

    New serial number assigned: 5195 RCAF

    New construction number, CA-267, assigned to the airframe.

    3 December 1970

    To O. J. Wieben/Severn Enterprises, Thunder Bay ONT.

    June 1971

    To Severn Enterprises, Thunder Bay ONT with new c/r CF-ZQR.

    Operated by Superior Airways, Thunder Bay ONT.

    April 1979

    To Folsoms Air Service, Greenville ME with new c/r N1042H.

    16 June 1981

    Certificate of airworthiness for N1042H (D18S, CA-267) issued.

    23 September 1985

    To Thomas J. Prijatel, Cordova, AL keeping c/r N1042H.

    January 1997

    To William H. Magie, Cordova AK keeping c/r N1042H.

    December 1997

    To Northstar Aviation/Alaska Coastal Airlines, Juneau AK keeping c/r N1042H.

    14 May 2003

    To unknown owner with c/r N1042H.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Juneau, AK.

    14 May 2003

    Civil registration, N1042H, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    16 June 2003

    To Amigo Airways Corp, Nanaimo BC with new c/r C-GGGF.

    24 May 2004


    Photographer: John W. Olafson
    Notes: At Nanaimo. At the time it was nicknamed - Kaneohe Beech.

    25 July 2006

    To 578471 B. C. Ltd, Nanaimo, BC keeping c/r C-GGGF.

    17 August 2009

    To Van City Seaplanes Ltd, Pitt Meadows, BC keeping c/r C-GGGF.

    18 October 2011

    Civil registration, C-GGGF, cancelled.

    28 October 2011

    To 666969 B. C. Ltd, Nanaimo, BC with new c/r C-GGGF.

    2 October 2013

    To Pacific Seaplanes Inc, Cedar, BC keeping c/r C-GGGF.

    25 June 2017


    Photographer: John W. Olafson
    Notes: This is the last Beech 18 operating on the West Coast- climbing away from Vancouver

    2018

    By 4 September 2020


    Photographer: Ted Brown
    Notes: Vancouver, BC

    21 February 2023

    Civil registration, C-GGGF, cancelled.

    25 October 2023


    Photographer: Don Olson
    Notes: Fulton Field, Kamloops,BC

    11 December 2023

    To 666969 B. C. Ltd, Nanaimo, BC keeping c/r C-GGGF.
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