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    Airframe Family: Beech 45/T-34 Mentor
    Latest Model:T-34B Mentor
    Last Military Serial:144095 USN
    Construction Number:BG-402
    Last Civil Registration:N245Z
    Compressed ID:Beech T-34B sn 144095 USN cn BG-402...
    Latest Owner or Location:Mentor Aviation Inc, Goshen IN

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-34B.

    1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 144095.

    Transferred to Training Squadron 1 (VT-1), NAS Saufley Field, Pensacola, FL.
    Operated with markings: 2S-183

    1 November 1970

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 4T0087.

    To unknown owner with c/r N7040G.

    3 April 1997

    To David F. Holt, Bend, OR with new c/r N245Z.

    Based at Bend Municipal, Bend, OR.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: 095, MARINES VT-1, KT, 144085

    14 May 2004

    Certificate of airworthiness for N245Z (T-34B, 144095) issued.

    31 January 2006

    To David F. Holt, Bend, OR keeping c/r N245Z.

    2 December 2009

    To Craig Sommerfeld, Kelly, IA keeping c/r N245Z.

    18 June 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Davenport, IA

    25 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Oshkosh

    25 July 2012


    Photographer: Todd Royer

    5 April 2014

    Certificate of airworthiness for N245Z (T-34B, 144095) issued.

    5 April 2014

    To David F. Holt, Port Ludlow, WA keeping c/r N245Z.

    24 August 2015

    To Sommerfeld Craig, Kelley, IA keeping c/r N245Z.

    10 September 2021

    To unknown owner with c/r N245Z.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Goshen, IN.

    2 February 2022

    To Mentor Aviation Inc, Goshen IN keeping c/r N245Z.

    20 June 2022


    Photographer: Todd Eby

    10 May 2023


    Photographer: Jim Owens
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    Print Sources
     Military Aircraft Serials of North America by S. Mitchell and A Eastwood
    Internet Sources
     Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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