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    Airframe Family: Beech 17 Staggerwing / C-43/GB Traveler
    Latest Model:GB-2 Traveler
    Last Military Serial:32875 USN
    Construction Number:6703
    Last Civil Registration:N1196V
    Compressed ID:Beech GB-2 sn 32875 USN cn 6703 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Robert L. Simon, Del Mar, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as an UC-43.

    4 March 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-67726.

    6 March 1944

    Transferred to Fort Dix AAB, NJ.
    For Lend-Lease to United Kingdom.

    13 April 1944

    Ferry flight.
    Departed Ft. Dix for England.

    Circa April 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n FT477.

    Circa 1945

    Declared surplus.
    Declared obsolete by the Air Ministry.

    Circa 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 32875.

    Circa 1945

    Redesignated as GB-2.

    Transferred to Norfolk NAS, VA.

    31 July 1946

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    18 September 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N1196V (D17S, 6703) issued.

    1963

    To H. W. Brown, Turtle Creek, PA with new c/r N1196V.

    1966

    To W. Reefe, Cleveland, OH keeping c/r N1196V.

    1971

    To C. R. Fisherkeller, Pittsburgh, PA keeping c/r N1196V.

    1974

    To Paul Stephenson Larry A. Greiner, Albuquerque, NM keeping c/r N1196V.

    Damaged.
    Taxi accident, flipped over, rebuilt by B. Hastings.

    November 1983

    To L. Hastings, Loma, CO keeping c/r N1196V.

    Circa 10 September 1984


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide photographed at DuPage Airport, West Chicago. IL

    9 May 1985

    To Tom Hillier Ford, Escalon, CA keeping c/r N1196V.

    Circa 27 May 1989


    Photographer: Dick Hopkins
    Notes: Photographed at an airshow in Watsonville, CA.

    1 January 2018

    Certificate of airworthiness for N1196V (D17S, 6703) issued.

    5 March 2021

    To Robert L. Simon, Del Mar, CA keeping c/r N1196V.

    15 September 2021


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Reno Air Races.

    17 September 2021


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Reno Air Races.
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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     Glenn Chatfield
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