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    Airframe Family: Beech 18 Expeditor / AT-7 / AT-11 / C-45 / JRB / SNB
    Latest Model:C-45G Expeditor
    Last Military Serial:51-11701 USAF
    Construction Number:4166
    Last Civil Registration:OK-BSC
    Compressed ID:Beech C-45G sn 51-11701 USAF cn 416...
    Latest Owner or Location:Vertego S. R. O

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-7.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-2490.

    Remanufactured as a C-45G.
    New construction number, AF-258, assigned to the airframe.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-BSZC.

    From 16 December 1952 to March 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-11701.

    From 15 May 1963 to 1972

    To H. M. Lamb, Jacksonville, FL with new c/r N9541Z.

    From 1973 to 1986

    To William M. Smallwood/Flamingo Aircraft Inc, Jacksonville, FL keeping c/r N9541Z.

    1986

    To Blake W. Thomas, Fayetteville, GA keeping c/r N9541Z.

    From 1986 to 1989

    Restored.
    Restored in SAC military scheme.

    November 1989

    To Blake W. Thomas, Fayetteville GA keeping c/r N9541Z.

    13 April 1990


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Lakeland, Florida

    13 December 1990

    Civil registration, N9541Z, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Griffin, GA.

    From 14 December 1990 to 23 September 1991

    To Great Cloud Designs Ltd with new c/r G-BSZC.

    From 23 September 1991 to 26 September 2003

    To Anthony Arthur Hodgson keeping c/r G-BSZC.

    27 August 1994


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Former USAF C-45H Expeditor 51-11701, now G-BSZC, on display at the 1994 Carlisle Airshow, Cumbria.

    From 26 September 2003 to 23 May 2005

    To Anthony Patrick Howard Walsh keeping c/r G-BSZC.

    From 23 May 2005 to 17 June 2013

    To Weston Ltd, Weston Airport, Ireland keeping c/r G-BSZC.

    7 February 2008


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: At Weston County Kildare

    From 17 June 2013 to 3 April 2014

    To Kieran Augustine Oconnor keeping c/r G-BSZC.

    To Weston Airport, Cooldrinagh, Dublin.
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    3 April 2014

    To Vertego Sro, Czech Republic keeping c/r G-BSZC.

    22 August 2014


    Photographer: Fred Taylor
    Notes: G-BSZC Photographed at Duxford. UK on 22 August 2014.

    30 August 2016

    Civil registration, G-BSZC, cancelled.

    9 September 2016

    To Vertego S. R. O with new c/r OK-BSC.
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