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    Airframe Family: Beech 17 Staggerwing / C-43/GB Traveler
    Latest Model:D17S Staggerwing
    Last Military Serial:42-38229 USAAF
    Construction Number:0289
    Last Civil Registration:N47D
    Compressed ID:Beech D17S sn 42-38229 USAAF cn 028...
    Latest Owner or Location:B and B Aviation Llc, Evansville, IN

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    Dates

    Event

    1939

    Constructed as a D17R.

    29 July 1939

    To A. G. Candler, Atlanta, GA with new c/r NC20752.

    March 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-38229 as a UC-43A.

    Transferred to March Field, CA.

    After September 1942

    Transferred to McChord Field, WA.

    Transferred to Sacramento Air Depot, CA.

    Transferred to Sherman Field, Fort Leavenworth, KS.

    12 October 1944

    Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

    1946

    To Smith Tool (and) Engineering, Bucyrus, OH with new c/r NC47939.

    1952

    Converted to a D17S.
    Pratt and Whitney R-985 engine installed.

    To O. D. White keeping c/r NC47939.

    By 30 January 1956

    To O. D. White with new c/r.

    30 January 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N47D (D17R, 289) issued.

    1960

    To Roy Good, Aircraft and Engine Enterprises Inc, Lost Valley Ranch, Galena Park, TX with new c/r N47D.

    Circa 1965

    Restored.
    By Aircraft (and) Engineering Enterprises Inc, Moore, OK.

    Circa 1989

    To Duane L. Burnett, Boulder, CO keeping c/r N47D.

    28 October 2004

    To Beechcraft Staggerwing 47D Llc, Boulder, CO keeping c/r N47D.

    July 2014


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At 2014 EAA Airventure at Oshkosh

    4 March 2015

    To Beechcraft Staggerwing 47D Llc, Colorado Springs, CO keeping c/r N47D.

    16 April 2018

    To Beechcraft Staggerwing 47D Llc, Colorado Springs, CO keeping c/r N47D.

    26 September 2018

    To B and B Aviation Llc, Evansville, IN keeping c/r N47D.

    8 January 2022

    Civil registration, N47D, cancelled.

    17 March 2022

    To B and B Aviation Llc, Evansville, IN with new c/r N47D.
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