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    Airframe Family: Beech 45/T-34 Mentor
    Latest Model:T-34B Mentor
    Last Military Serial:143996 USN
    Construction Number:BG-303
    Last Civil Registration:N20685
    Compressed ID:Beech T-34B sn 143996 USN cn BG-303...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    1956

    Constructed as a T-34B.

    1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 143996.

    August 1967

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC).

    By 1975

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 143996.

    By 1975

    Transferred to United States Navy Recruiting Command, NAF Millington, TN.

    By February 1994

    To Jax Navy Flying Club, NAS Jacksonville, FL with new c/r N20685.

    16 February 1994

    Certificate of airworthiness for N20685 (D-45, BG-303) issued.

    5 November 1995


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Cecil Field Airshow

    26 August 2000

    Crashed.
    The accident occurred at the Jacksonville NAS Airport (NIP) Jacksonville, FL, United States while landing. The damage was substantial. The pilot said that during the landing he flared the airplane too high and the right wing dropped and impacted the runway before the landing gear, damaging a four-foot outboard section of the right wing.
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    4 November 2004

    To National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, FL keeping c/r N20685.

    Based at National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
    Displayed indoors without wings.
    View the Location Dossier

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    3 July 2013

    Civil registration, N20685, cancelled.

    1 January 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for N20685 (D-45, BG-303) issued.
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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
     Military Aircraft Serials of North America by S. Mitchell and A Eastwood
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    ClemsonWiki
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Transportation Safety Board
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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