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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:UC-45J Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:39265 USN
    Last Civil Registration:N49265
    Compressed ID:Beech UC-45J sn 39265 USN cr N49265...
    Latest Owner or Location:American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, Dallas, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as a SNB-2.

    1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 39265.

    It spent all of WWII at four Navy bases in Florida, Georgia, and Texas as a navigation trainer.

    1948

    Transferred to Marine Corps Air Station, Quantico, VA.

    From 1951 to 1953

    Remanufactured as a SNB-5.

    September 1962

    Redesignated as UC-45J.

    From Unknown to 1965

    Transferred to Twin Cities NAS, MN.
    Last assigned duty station.

    July 1965

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC).

    From 1969 to 1979

    To Central Missouri State College Board of Regents, Warrensburg MO with new c/r N49265.

    From December 1988 to 1999

    To Frank Howerton/Kansas City Beech 18 Inc, Independence MO keeping c/r N49265.

    7 April 1991


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Lakeland, Florida

    6 April 1999

    To Earl V Long, 111 DBA, Wichita, KS keeping c/r N49265.

    From 6 March 2000 to 2009

    To John J. Johnson, Tucson AZ, later Wasilla AK keeping c/r N49265.

    29 June 2000

    Certificate of airworthiness for N49265 (UC-45J, 39265) issued.

    From 2005 to 2006

    Placed on display with Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum, Anchorage-Lake Hood.

    14 July 2007


    Photographer: David Lednicer
    Notes: This aircraft was originally built as a SNB-2 Navigator. On display at the EAA Arlington Fly-In.

    15 June 2009

    To American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, Midland, TX keeping c/r N49265.

    In the inventory of Commemorative Air Force Airpower Museum, Midland International Airport (MAF), Midland, TX.
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    24 August 2015

    To American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, Dallas, TX keeping c/r N49265.

    5 August 2023


    Photographer: Paulo @badesso
    Notes: Noted Rocky Mountain, CO
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