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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:AT-11 Kansan
    Last Military Serial:41-27451 USAAF
    Construction Number:1296
    Last Civil Registration:N73360
    Compressed ID:Beech AT-11 sn 41-27451 USAAF cn 12...
    Latest Owner or Location:Norwegian Implement Co, Norway, Illinois

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AT-11.

    9 May 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-27451.

    22 September 1945

    Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Ponca City AR.

    1957

    To Consolidated Radio Products, Chicago IL with new c/r N73360.

    7 February 1961

    To Erickson Ralph, Marseilles, IL keeping c/r N73360.

    18 July 1977

    Civil registration, N73360, cancelled.

    1978

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Retired derelict at Griffith, IN airport.

    1988

    To Norwegian Implement Co, Norway, IL.
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    1988

    Stripped and derelict displayed nosed-in outside Norwegian Implement farm machinery store as a memorial to the 1980s US agricultural crash, which ruined many local farmers.

    11 August 1993


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Photo taken prior tailplane of C-45H 51-11904 being acquired

    2001

    Tailplane from C-45H 51-11904/N3657G was added to the display underneath the tail.

    12 October 2003


    Photographer: Mike Fuller
    Notes: Note tail plane on the ground is from N3657G, C45H, N3657G

    9 November 2018


    Photographer: Mike Fuller
    Notes: Note tail plane on the ground is from N3657G, C45H, N3657G
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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