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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:52-10885 USAF
    Construction Number:3360
    Last Civil Registration:N480P
    Compressed ID:Beech C-45H sn 52-10885 USAF cn 336...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fremont County Airport, Canon City, Colorado

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    Dates

    Event

    1942

    Constructed as an AT-11.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-36980.

    18 September 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 42-36980.

    1948

    Redesignated as T-11.

    1954

    Remanufactured as a C-45H.
    New construction number, AF-815, assigned to the airframe.

    1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-10885.

    1963

    To Purdue University, Lafayette IN with new c/r N4983E.

    8 January 1963

    Certificate of airworthiness for N480P (C-45H, 52-10885) issued.

    1966

    To Purdue University, Lafayette IN with new c/r N480P.

    October 1980

    To Robert E. James, Merritt Island FL keeping c/r N480P.

    14 March 1987


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Tico Airport, Titusville, Florida

    19 February 1998

    To Cecil R. Shuman, Chugiak, AK keeping c/r N480P.

    5 May 2005

    To Carl W. Mattson, Denver, CO keeping c/r N480P.

    16 May 2007

    To Paul C. Mattson, Frisco, CO keeping c/r N480P.

    Based at Stockton Field Aviation Museum/Vintage Aircraft/Taigh Ramey, Stockton Metropolitan Airport, Stockton, CA.
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    Markings Applied: RJ

    7 November 2012

    To Donald G. Kiel, Whitelaw, WI keeping c/r N480P.

    July 2015


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At EAA Airventure, Oshkosh

    12 September 2015


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: At Brodhead, Wisconsin

    27 September 2016

    To Plane Fun Inc TR Trustee, Snellville, GA keeping c/r N480P.

    To Fremont County Airport, Canon City, CO.
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    Markings Applied: RJ
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    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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    Terry Fletcher
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