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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:D18S
    Construction Number:A-0479
    Last Civil Registration:CF-TBX
    Compressed ID:Beech D18S cn A-0479 cr CF-TBX
    Latest Owner or Location:Walsten Aircraft Parts and Leasing Inc, Penticton, BC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a D18S.

    1952

    To Aetna Freight Lines, Warren OH with new c/r N481B.

    1963

    To Detroit Gasket and Manufacturing Co, Detroit MI keeping c/r N481B.

    1966

    To unknown owner with c/r CF-TBX.

    From 1970 to 1978

    To Canadian Voyageur Airlines, Fort Frances ONT keeping c/r CF-TBX.

    17 July 1981

    To Kenora Air Service Ltd, Kenora ONT with new c/r C-FTBX.
    On Floats.

    29 June 1986


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 1986 photo at Kenora - Seen here in service with Parsons Airways at the Kenora downtown float base, this 1949 built Beech 18 is still going, albeit in different hands, as of 2010. Orginally CF-TBX, it is here C-FTBX. Since then it has gone back to CF-TBX after Transport Canada allowed aircraft 25 or more years old to be painted as such

    24 June 2004

    To Red Lake Airways, Red Lake ONT keeping c/r C-FTBX.

    24 February 2006

    To Kenora Air Service Ltd, Kenora, ON keeping c/r C-FTBX.

    11 June 2008


    Photographer: Axel Klegien
    Notes: C-FTBX Kenora Air Beech 18 at Red Lake, Ontario

    10 February 2017

    To Walsten Aircraft Parts and Leasing Inc, Kenora, ON with new c/r CF-TBX.

    30 April 2019

    To Walsten Aircraft Parts and Leasing Inc, Penticton, BC keeping c/r CF-TBX.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
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     Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Transport Canada
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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