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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:42-37398 USAAF
    Construction Number:3991
    Last Civil Registration:N701BA
    Compressed ID:Beech AT-11 sn 42-37398 USAAF cn 39...
    Latest Owner or Location:Stockton Field Aviation Museum / Vintage Aircraft / Taigh Ramey, Stockton Metropolitan Airport, Stockton, California

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as an AT-11.

    25 August 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-37398.

    4 February 1946

    To Frank W. Cambell with new c/r NC59001.

    6 July 1946

    To Hickok Manufacturing Co Inc keeping c/r NC59001.

    1 July 1949

    To Edward W. Chatterton with new c/r N59001.

    21 August 1951

    To Charles T. Frew keeping c/r N59001.

    23 April 1952

    To Brown Ranch Company keeping c/r N59001.

    16 July 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N59001 issued.

    21 February 1957

    To Cochrane-Barron Company keeping c/r N59001.

    2 October 1959

    To Aircraft Service Co keeping c/r N59001.

    From 16 April 1960 to 1987

    To Don H. Novas, Blackfoot ID keeping c/r N59001.

    October 1987

    To Don H. Novas, Blackfoot ID with new c/r N701BA.

    November 1987

    To Sheridan Sky Sports, Sheridan OR keeping c/r N701BA.

    9 August 1988

    To Blue Sky Express, Salt Lake City UT keeping c/r N701BA.

    14 August 1990

    To Red Top Leasing Co Inc, Elnido, CA keeping c/r N701BA.
    Markings added: Blue Sky Express

    9 February 1998

    To Discovery Air, San Jose CA keeping c/r N701BA.

    3 October 2001

    To California Antique Aircraft Museum DBA, San Martin, CA keeping c/r N701BA.

    January 2007

    To Stockton Field Aviation Museum/Vintage Aircraft/Taigh Ramey, Stockton Metropolitan Airport, Stockton, CA.
    View the Location Dossier

    12 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    26 October 2010


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: 2010 photo taken at Stockton CA.

    1 January 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for N701BA issued.

    18 July 2017

    Civil registration, N701BA, cancelled.

    28 September 2019


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Stockton, CA, U.S.A.

    28 September 2019


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Stockton, CA, U.S.A.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Beech 18: A Civil and Military History by R. K. Parmerter
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2019/2020 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
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