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    Airframe Family: Beech 17 Staggerwing / C-43/GB Traveler
    Latest Model:D17S Staggerwing
    Last Military Serial:43-10837 USAAF
    Construction Number:4885
    Last Civil Registration:N17GL
    Compressed ID:Beech D17S sn 43-10837 USAAF cn 488...
    Latest Owner or Location:International Air Services Inc Trustee, Carson City, NV

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UC-43.

    30 March 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-10837.

    Redesignated as D17S.

    September 1946

    To Vivisao dos Transportes, Angola with new c/r CR-LBF.

    1955

    To Aero Service Corp, Philadelphia with new c/r N1591V.

    1955

    To African Surveys, Baragwanath, South Africa keeping c/r N1591V.

    1959

    To T. H. Aiksh, Durban with new c/r ZS-CLM.

    1968

    To A. J. Tony Torr, Rand, Johannesburg with new c/r ZS-AJT.

    From 1978 to 1979

    Restored.

    1988

    To W. H. Barnard, Clocolan keeping c/r ZS-AJT.

    27 April 2005

    To Geoffrey William Lynch, Bury Saint. Edmunds, England with new c/r G-LAJT.

    2008

    Transported by ship.
    Sent to Denver, CO, for extensive overhaul.

    Restored.

    23 May 2008

    To International Air Services Inc Trustee, Rattlesden Suffolk with new c/r N17GL.

    10 October 2011

    Certificate of airworthiness for N17GL (D17S, 4885) issued.

    June 2012

    First post-restoration Flight.

    Now based at KFHU Arizona - Sierra Vista Municipal Airport (AZ).

    6 February 2014

    To International Air Services Inc Trustee, Carson City, NV keeping c/r N17GL.

    4 March 2014


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At Sierra Vista, AZ

    15 March 2017

    To International Air Services Inc Trustee, Carson City, NV keeping c/r N17GL.

    February 2019

    Transported by ship.
    Dismantled, containerized and shipped to United Kingdom.

    From April 2019 to May 2019

    Reassembled.
    Reassembled and hangared at Old Buckenham Airfield, Norfolk. U.K.

    31 July 2022


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: N17GL at Old Buckenham, UK on 31 July 2022.
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     Beech 17 Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
    G. W. Lynch
    Geoffrey Lynch
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