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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:Expeditor 3TM
    Last Military Serial:5193 CAF
    Construction Number:CA-164
    Last Civil Registration:G-BKGL
    Compressed ID:Beech Expeditor 3TM sn 5193 CAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Alexander Timothy Jackson Darrah, Seaview Crescent, Tong Chung, Hong Kong (sar PRC)

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an Expeditor 3TM.

    To unknown owner with c/r CF-QPD.

    From Unknown to 7 May 1971

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Canadian Armed Forces with s/n 5193.

    To unknown owner with c/r CF-QPD.

    From 14 July 1982 to 9 August 1999

    To Graham Arthur Warner with new c/r G-BKGL.

    28 May 1988


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: Beech D18S Expediter G-BKGL painted in false USN marks at Duxford in Summer 88

    To Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    Markings Applied: 1164 US Army

    From 9 August 1999 to 3 April 2002

    To Propshop Ltd keeping c/r G-BKGL.

    3 April 2002

    To Alexander Timothy Jackson Darrah, Seaview Crescent, Tong Chung, Hong Kong (sar PRC) keeping c/r G-BKGL.

    19 July 2003


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: In the 100 Years of Flight enclave at RIAT Fairford.

    19 July 2003


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Aircraft based at Imperial War Museum, Duxford - but 2003 photo shown visiting 2003 RIAT Military Air Tattoo at Fairford

    20 August 2006


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: With prominent number 64 at Duxford, UK

    27 May 2012


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    9 March 2014


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire

    Markings Applied: Good Vibrations, 1164

    6 May 2019


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    6 May 2019


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    6 May 2019


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    7 June 2019


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Wearing invasion strips at the event Daks over Normandy, Caen-Carpiquet
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