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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:C-45G Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:51-11799 USAF
    Construction Number:932
    Last Civil Registration:N6488D
    Compressed ID:Beech C-45G sn 51-11799 USAF cn 932...
    Latest Owner or Location:Speciality Aviation Training Center Inc, Deland, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AT-11.

    Circa 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-9506.

    28 February 1945


    Photographer: Facebook
    Notes: 1942 AT-11 41-9506 ground looped on takeoff at Childress Bombardier Training School, TX (512th Base Unit) 28Feb45.

    Circa 1953

    Remanufactured as a C-45G.

    1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-11799.

    New construction number, AF-0356, assigned to the airframe.

    1 July 1959

    Certificate of airworthiness for N6488D (C-45H, AF-356) issued.

    Circa August 1959

    To unknown owner with c/r N6488D.

    1963

    To Corporate Air Transport, Chicago IL keeping c/r N6488D.

    1969

    To Salisbury Rowan Flying Assoc, Salisbury NC keeping c/r N6488D.

    1970

    To Erwin J. Moore, Lexington KY keeping c/r N6488D.

    1972

    To Grover Summers, Winter Haven FL keeping c/r N6488D.

    1982

    To Trans Florida Airways, Daytona Beach FL keeping c/r N6488D.

    4 August 1989

    To William H. Bock, South Daytona, FL keeping c/r N6488D.

    10 April 1996

    To Pine Lakes Aircraft Leasing, Deland FL keeping c/r N6488D.

    1 January 2001

    Certificate of airworthiness for N6488D (C-45H, AF-356) issued.

    4 March 2003

    To Bill Goldsmith, Daytona Beach FL keeping c/r N6488D.

    2 September 2004

    To Bryce A. Bock, Deland, FL keeping c/r N6488D.

    24 September 2010

    To unknown owner with c/r N6488D.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Deland, FL.

    16 December 2010

    To Speciality Aviation Training Center Inc, Deland, FL keeping c/r N6488D.

    7 September 2017

    Civil registration, N6488D, cancelled.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Beech 18: A Civil and Military History by R. K. Parmerter
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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