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    Airframe Family: Beech 45/T-34 Mentor
    Latest Model:T-34B Mentor
    Last Military Serial:140739 USN
    Construction Number:BG-073
    Last Civil Registration:N20783
    Compressed ID:Beech T-34B sn 140739 USN cn BG-073...
    Latest Owner or Location:Lefors Field (PPA), Pampa, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-34B.

    1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 140739.

    6 October 1993

    To Atlanta Navy Flying Club Operator, Marietta, GA with new c/r N20783.

    3 December 1993

    Certificate of airworthiness for N20783 (D-45, BG-73) issued.

    19 October 1999

    To Atlanta Navy Flying Club Operator, Marietta, GA with new c/r N20783.

    1 January 2003

    Certificate of airworthiness for N20783 (D-45, BG-73) issued.

    Based at Whidbey Island Navy Flying Club, Whidbey Island NAS, Oak Harbor, WA.
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    Markings Applied: AF/783

    30 June 2008

    To United States Navy, Oak Harbor, WA keeping c/r N20783.

    Based at Texas Air and Space Museum, Amarillo International Airport, Amarillo, TX.
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    To Lefors Field (PPA), Pampa, TX.
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    29 October 2013

    Civil registration, N20783, cancelled.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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