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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:AT-11 Kansan
    Last Military Serial:43-10427 USAAF
    Construction Number:6501
    Last Civil Registration:N500AM
    Compressed ID:Beech AT-11 sn 43-10427 USAAF cn 65...
    Latest Owner or Location:Levi T. Lundell, Washington, DC

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    Dates

    Event

    March 1944

    Constructed as an AT-11.

    Circa March 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-10427.

    By December 1945

    Transferred to 2528th Base Unit, Midland AAF, TX.

    By April 1946

    Transferred to War Assets Administration.

    11 April 1946

    To Rex K. Dyer with new c/r NC5000N.
    Purchased from WAA for $3750.

    20 February 1947

    To Hardin E. Miller keeping c/r NC5000N.

    21 February 1947

    To Spartan Aircraft Company, Tulsa, OK keeping c/r NC5000N.

    25 March 1947

    To R. H. Schlesinger keeping c/r NC5000N.

    4 June 1947

    Civil conversion completed: turret, bombay doors (and) nose windows removed and skinned over, C18Scabin door fitted.

    17 June 1948

    To R. Exton Guckes keeping c/r NC5000N.

    14 July 1948

    To Eaton Manufacturing Company with new c/r N5000N.

    22 January 1951

    To Sky Travel Inc keeping c/r N5000N.

    23 February 1951

    To The Gabriel Company keeping c/r N5000N.

    22 September 1952

    To Northeast Aviation Company keeping c/r N5000N.

    5 June 1953

    To Woodbridge Car (and) Truck Lease Corp keeping c/r N5000N.

    19 August 1954

    To Concrete Trans-Mix Corporation keeping c/r N5000N.

    20 September 1956

    To Long Island Airways, Ronkonkoma, NY keeping c/r N5000N.

    23 June 1966

    To Jack Adams Aircraft Sales, Walls, MS keeping c/r N5000N.

    29 June 1966

    To Galveston Airways/Gulf Air Freight Service, Galveston, TX keeping c/r N5000N.

    18 July 1966

    To Jack Adams Aircraft Sales, Walls, MS keeping c/r N5000N.

    25 July 1966

    To Flying W Productions Inc, Medford, NJ keeping c/r N5000N.

    18 April 1967

    To Continental Aircraft Sales Inc keeping c/r N5000N.

    19 April 1967

    To Nathaniel Hawthorne College, Antrim, NH keeping c/r N5000N.

    8 March 1978

    To D (and) G Air Service/Warbird Aviation keeping c/r N5000N.
    Purchased for parts only: not to be flown.

    May 1980

    To Aero-Marine Surveys Inc, New London, CT keeping c/r N5000N.

    15 November 1980

    To Aero-Marine Surveys Inc, New London, CT with new c/r N500AM.

    19 May 1981

    Hamilton Aviation modifications installed: AUWincreased from 7850 lbs to 9450 lbs, including D18Slanding gear.

    19 May 1981

    Certificate of airworthiness for N500AM (AT-11, 6501) issued.

    By March 1987

    Used to spot schools of fish in Atlantic Ocean under a Government contract.

    17 July 1988


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Rockford, IL

    6 July 1990

    Contracted to Mark Clark/Courtesy Aircraft, Rockford, IL for work on the airframe.
    For restortion.

    By 29 July 1990

    Markings Applied: USN 500
    Painted as US Navy SNB-1/USN 500.

    15 July 1991

    To Aero-Marine Surveys Inc, New London, CT keeping c/r N500AM.

    October 1993

    To D Mark Lundell, Scottsdale, AZ keeping c/r N500AM.

    October 1993

    To Mark (and) Deborah A. Foote, Paradise Valley, AZ keeping c/r N500AM.

    By March 1994

    Markings Applied: 3-10427
    Bare metal USAAF paint scheme.

    6 August 1995


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Aurora, IL

    6 August 1995


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Aurora, IL

    15 August 2013

    Civil registration, N500AM, cancelled.

    25 August 2016

    To Deborah A. Foote, Corpus Christi, TX with new c/r N500AM.

    26 March 2018

    Civil registration, N500AM, cancelled.

    1 January 2019

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX500AM (AT-11, 6501) issued.

    Circa 1 January 2019

    To Deborah A. Foote, Paradise Valley, AZ with new c/r N500AM.

    18 November 2019

    To Levi T. Lundell, Imperial Beach, CA keeping c/r N500AM.

    20 July 2022

    To Levi T. Lundell, Washington, DC keeping c/r N500AM.


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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

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