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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:E18S
    Construction Number:BA-384
    Last Civil Registration:N8711
    Compressed ID:Beech E18S cn BA-384 cr N8711
    Latest Owner or Location:Viking Express

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1958

    Constructed as an E18S.

    26 September 1958

    Certificate of airworthiness for N87D (E18S, BA-384) issued.

    26 September 1958

    To Youngstown Airways/Lease Air, Youngstown OH with new c/r N87D.

    1964

    To Beach Air Service, Fort Lauderdale FL with new c/r N8711.

    From 1966 to 1972

    To Bear Manufacturing Corp, Rock Island IL keeping c/r N8711.

    1 November 1981

    To Coast Air Freight, Long Beach CA keeping c/r N8711.

    3 December 1990

    To Robert B. Burwell DBA, West Chicago, IL keeping c/r N8711.

    Leased to Viking Express.


    Photographer: Rick Rohrer
    Notes: Viking Express Beech 18 N8711. My shot at the DuPage County Airport, West Chicago, IL

    By 1999

    Retired engineless, nose damaged, Aurora IL.

    4 May 2015

    Civil registration, N8711, 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
     Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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