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    Airframe Family: Beech 17 Staggerwing / C-43/GB Traveler
    Latest Model:UC-43A Traveler
    Last Military Serial:42-52999 USAAF
    Construction Number:0072
    Last Civil Registration:NC47833
    Compressed ID:Beech UC-43A sn 42-52999 USAAF cn 0...
    Latest Owner or Location:W. S. Young, Shreveport (LA)

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    Dates

    Event

    1936

    Constructed as a D17R.

    5 April 1936

    To Fred. C. Talbot, Hilsboro, CA with new c/r NC15817.

    To OCS-Oil Country Specialities, Coffeyville, KS keeping c/r NC15817.

    1940

    To Richard H. Williams, San Francisco, CA keeping c/r NC15817.

    1940


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: B-17R at Monterey, CA, in 1940

    20 March 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-52999 as a UC-43A.
    Impressed into U.S. Army Air Force.

    4 September 1944

    Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

    5 March 1945

    To Willis S. Young, Shreveport, LA with new c/r N47833 (B17R, B17R-72).

    1946

    To W. S. Young, Shreveport (LA) with new c/r NC47833.

    1946

    Damaged beyond repair in a hangar fire.

    3 April 1946

    Civil registration, N47833, cancelled.
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