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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:C-45H Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:52-10904 USAF
    Construction Number:6052
    Last Civil Registration:N40074
    Compressed ID:Beech C-45H sn 52-10904 USAF cn 605...
    Latest Owner or Location:Commemorative Air Force - Cimmaron Strip Wing, Guymon Municipal Airport, Guymon, Oklahoma

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-45B.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-35584.

    1943

    Redesignated as UC-45B.

    18 September 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 43-35584.

    1954

    Remanufactured as a C-45H.
    New construction number, AF-834, assigned to the airframe.

    1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-10904.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 210904.
    Loaned to USN.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-10904.

    Circa 1960

    Transferred to Virginia Air National Guard.

    Circa 1960


    Photographer: Robert A. Flournoy VA-ANG
    Notes: VA-ANG during the F-84F Days. Uploaded by Kenneth W. Keeton with VA-ANG permission.

    To University of Texas Defense Research Department, Austin, TX.


    Photographer: Don Hallock Collection
    Notes: University of Texas Defense Research Department, Austin, Texas

    16 August 1983

    Certificate of airworthiness for N40074 (C-45H, AF 834) issued.

    5 September 1991

    To American Airpower Heritage Fly Musm, Midland, TX with new c/r N40074.

    In the inventory of Commemorative Air Force Airpower Museum, Midland International Airport (MAF), Midland, TX.
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    24 August 2015

    To American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum Inc, Dallas, TX keeping c/r N40074.

    1 January 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for N40074 (C-45H, AF 834) issued.

    Operated by Commemorative Air Force-Cimmaron Strip Wing, Guymon Municipal Airport, Guymon, OK.
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    29 October 2016


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At CAF Wings Over Dallas Airshow, Dallas Executive Airport, TX.

    6 October 2017


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At CAF Wings Over Dallas Airshow, Dallas Executive Airport, TX.

    29 April 2024


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Guymon, OK, USA
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