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    Airframe Family: Beech 17 Staggerwing / C-43/GB Traveler
    Latest Model:D17S Staggerwing
    Last Military Serial:33004 USN
    Construction Number:4803
    Last Civil Registration:N9405H
    Compressed ID:Beech D17S sn 33004 USN cn 4803 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:International Air Services Inc Trustee, Carson City, NV

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a GB-2.
    Beech D17S 4803

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 33004.

    Converted to a D17S.

    4 June 1959

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9405H (D17S, 4803) issued.

    16 July 1990

    To Classic Plane Company, North Lima, OH with new c/r N9405H.

    19 October 1999

    To Classic Plane Company, North Lima, OH with new c/r N9405H.

    1 January 2004

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9405H (D17S, 4803) issued.

    19 September 2008

    To International Air Services Inc Trustee, Suffolk keeping c/r N9405H.

    19 September 2008

    Civil registration N9405H reserved.
    Status (N9405H): Civil registration reserved.

    Based at Old Buckenham Airfield, Attleborough-Black Carr, Norfolk, England.
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    6 February 2014

    To International Air Services Inc Trustee, Carson City, NV keeping c/r N9405H.

    26 July 2014


    Photographer: John Allan
    Notes: 2014 photo taken at Old Buckenham

    31 July 2022


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: N9405H at Old Buckenham, UK on 31 July 2022.
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