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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:RC-45J Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:39196 USN
    Construction Number:4215
    Last Civil Registration:N9196
    Compressed ID:Beech RC-45J sn 39196 USN cn 4215 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hank F. Zbierski, Lake Geneva, WI

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1943

    Constructed as a SNB-2.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 39196.

    Circa 1953

    Converted to a SNB-5P.

    Circa 1962

    Converted to a RC-45J.

    From 1972 to 1979

    To Gateway Technical Institute, Kenosha WI with new c/r N9196.
    Instructional airframe, no CofA.

    24 September 1981

    To Blackhawk Aircraft Maintenance, Janesville-Rock County Airport WI keeping c/r N9196.
    Stripped for parts for Beech 18 rebuild projects byBlackhawk Aircraft Maintenance.

    From 1982 to 2002

    Derelict at Janesville.

    2002

    Restoration started.
    Moved to Burlington WI.

    26 March 2003

    To John J. Pelland, Antioch, IL keeping c/r N9196.

    25 August 2013


    Photographer: Mark Pasqualino
    Notes: At Burlington Municipal, IL

    7 November 2013

    To Hank F. Zbierski, Lake Geneva, WI keeping c/r N9196.

    28 February 2020

    Civil registration, N9196, cancelled.
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    unreviewed imported data.
    If you can verify the documented history or add to it with additional text and/or photos please feel free to do so by using the upload tool and the history editor.
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    Terry Fletcher
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