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    Airframe Family: Beech 45/T-34 Mentor
    Latest Model:T-34A-BH Mentor
    Last Military Serial:53-3366 USAF
    Construction Number:G-127
    Last Civil Registration:N4WL
    Compressed ID:Beechcraft T-34A-BH sn 53-3366 USAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:James T. Ostrich, Redding, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-34A-BH by Beechcraft at Wichita, KS.

    Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-3366.

    10 April 1958

    Certificate of airworthiness for N4WL (A45, G-127) issued.

    16 December 1998

    To Kenneth E. Bowdish, Harvard, IL with new c/r N4WL.

    Based at Warbirds West Air Museum, Gillespie Field, San Diego, CA.
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    25 March 2005

    To James T. Ostrich, La Mesa, CA keeping c/r N4WL.

    29 April 2006


    Photographer: Todd Royer
    Notes: 2006 March Field ARB Airshow

    1 January 2010

    Certificate of airworthiness for N4WL (A45, G-127) issued.

    14 July 2016

    To James T. Ostrich, Redding, CA keeping c/r N4WL.

    18 June 2017


    Photographer: Tom Vance
    Notes: at KO85 Benton Airfield - Redding with Jim Ostrich at the controls on his famous plane ride express elevator ride and wing over, a crowd favorite.

    28 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: at 2017 EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh

    3 October 2019


    Photographer: Tom Vance
    Notes: at KO85 Jim Ostrich T-34 on static display this show - normally time flies plane rides with a slight twist on the last fly by. I have info that this T-34 was painted in 2020 though I have not seen it yet.

    14 May 2022


    Photographer: Max Sabin
    Notes: Taken at Ellsworth AFB, SD, during the 2022 Airshow
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