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    Airframe Family: Short SC-7 Skyvan / SD3 / 330 / 360 / C-23 Sherpa
    Latest Model:C-23B+ Sherpa
    Last Military Serial:93-01322 US
    Construction Number:SH.3645
    Last Civil Registration:N170Z
    Compressed ID:Short C-23B+ sn 93-01322 US cn SH.3...
    Latest Owner or Location:AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SD3-60-200.

    1984

    First flight.

    Circa 1984

    To Short Brothers with new c/r G-14-3645.
    B Registration for test flying purposes.

    From 24 February 1984 to 1 May 1984

    To Short Brothers with new c/r G-BLGF.

    24 May 1984

    To Security Pacific Equipment Leasing Inc, San Francisco, CA with new c/r N633KC.

    May 1984

    Leased to Wright Airlines.

    26 September 1984

    Returned from lease.

    November 1984

    Leased to Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA).

    May 1991

    Leased to Pennsylvania Airlines May 1991.

    July 1992

    Leased to Allegheny Commuter Airlines.

    From Unknown to 12 June 1997

    To Shorts Aircraft Delivery Inc keeping c/r N633KC.

    Converted to a C-23B+.
    New construction number, SH.3406, assigned to the airframe.
    By Bombardiers West Virginia Air Center in Bridgeport, WV.

    March 1997

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 93-01322.

    Transferred to Pennsylvania Army National Guard.

    November 2013

    Assigned to Henry Post AAF/Fort Sill, OK for storage.
    For US Forestry Service.

    16 October 2014

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 396675.

    16 October 2014

    In the inventory of AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.
    Row 2.
    View the Location Dossier

    Civil registration N170Z reserved.

    13 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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