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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:UC-45F Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:B-8 SweAF
    Construction Number:8362
    Last Civil Registration:HB-GAC
    Compressed ID:Beech UC-45F sn B-8 SweAF cn 8362 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fliegermuseum Dubendorf, Dubendorf Airport, Dubendorf, Zurich

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-45F.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-87103.

    Converted to an UC-45F.

    To unknown owner with c/r N79848.

    To unknown owner with c/r SE-BTS.

    To unknown owner with c/r HB-GAC.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Flygvapnet with s/n B-8.

    To unknown owner with c/r HB-GAC.

    Withdrawn from use.

    By May 1998

    To Fliegermuseum Dubendorf, Dubendorf Airport, Dubendorf, Zurich.
    View the Location Dossier

    2008


    Photographer: Andy West

    21 February 2020


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: at Birrfeld LSZF, waiting for approval after renovation

    21 February 2020


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: details of history

    24 May 2021


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Grenchen LSZG

    8 July 2023


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Stanserhorn
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Patrick Dirksen
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