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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:UC-45J Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:39931 USN
    Construction Number:3663
    Last Civil Registration:N9493
    Compressed ID:Beech UC-45J sn 39931 USN cn 3663 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:George Baker Aviation Technical College, Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as a SNB-1.

    1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 39931.

    1953

    Remanufactured as a SNB-5.

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as UC-45J.

    20 June 1969

    To Dade County Board of Public Instuction, Miami, FL with new c/r N9493.

    24 June 1969

    Civil registration, N9493, cancelled.

    May 1970

    To George T. Baker Aviation School, Miami International Airport, Miami, FL.
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    August 1989


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: N9493 was another US Navy SNB-5, redesignated UC-45J in 1962. It was retitred to Davis Monthan AFB Arizona in 1967before being issued surplus to Dade County Board of Public Education in Florida two years later. N9493 was ferried to Miami to become an instructional airframe at the George T. Baker Aviation School at Miami Airport. Seen in August 1989

    Based at George Baker Aviation Technical College, Miami International Airport, Miami, FL.
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    30 January 2009


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Miami, Florida, U.S.A.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerodata Quantum+
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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