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    Airframe Family: Beech 45/T-34 Mentor
    Latest Model:A45
    Last Military Serial:55-0221 USAF
    Construction Number:G-778
    Last Civil Registration:N56NT
    Compressed ID:Beech A45 sn 55-0221 USAF cn G-778...
    Latest Owner or Location:Training Services Inc, Virginia Beach, VA

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    Dates

    Event

    1955

    Constructed as an A45.
    BEECH A45 G-778

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 55-0221.

    8 December 1961

    Certificate of airworthiness for N56NT (A45, G-778) issued.

    31 August 1999

    To Mentor Holdings Llc, Virginia Beach, VA with new c/r N53GP.

    29 January 2001

    To Training Services Inc, Virginia Beach, VA with new c/r N56NT.

    To Military Aviation Museum and Fighter Factory, Virginia Beach Airport, Virginia Beach, VA.
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    Markings Applied: 2P/117

    1 January 2008

    Certificate of airworthiness for N56NT (A45, G-778) issued.

    17 May 2013


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: Seen during Warbirds over the Beach, Virginia Beach, VA, USA

    10 November 2015

    To Training Services Inc, Virginia Beach, VA keeping c/r N56NT.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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