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    Airframe Family: Beech 17 Staggerwing / C-43/GB Traveler
    Latest Model:GB-2 Traveler
    Last Military Serial:23694 USN
    Construction Number:6880
    Last Civil Registration:N52962
    Compressed ID:Beech GB-2 sn 23694 USN cn 6880 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Florida Air Museum, Lakeland Municipal Airport, Lakeland, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as an UC-43.
    To be delivered to U.S. Army Air Force as 44-67772 but not taken up

    4 May 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 23694 as a GB-2.

    May 1944

    Transferred to NAS Atlantic City, NJ.

    31 August 1946

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    By December 1955

    To unknown owner with c/r N52962.

    1 December 1955

    Certificate of airworthiness for N52962 (D17S, 6880) issued.

    1966

    To D. Cross, Hunterville, NC keeping c/r N52962.

    1971

    To J. A. Branstrom, Morgantown, NC keeping c/r N52962.

    1974

    To Tom Archibald, Hillsboro, OH keeping c/r N52962.

    Circa 10 August 1977


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Photo taken sometime in August 1977 at the Port Columbus International Airport, Columbus, OH

    4 March 1980

    To J. Eddie Swarthout, Tavares, FL keeping c/r N52962.

    Restored.
    Restoration by Jim Kimball Enterprises Inc.

    1992

    To Edward A. Hunold, Menominee, MI keeping c/r N52962.

    Loaned to Weeks Air Museum Inc, Polk City, FL.

    1 January 2001

    Certificate of airworthiness for N52962 (D17S, 6880) issued.

    28 March 2002

    To Weeks Air Museum Inc, Polk City, FL keeping c/r N52962.

    28 March 2002

    To Worlds Greatest Aircraft Collection Inc, Polk City, FL keeping c/r N52962.

    13 February 2004

    To Weeks Air Museum Inc, Polk City, FL keeping c/r N52962.

    9 April 2008


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Sun-n-Fun. Lakeland FL

    16 February 2010

    Civil registration revised, N52962 (D17S, 6880).
    Museum name changed to Weeks Air Museum Inc, Polk City, FL.

    Based at Fantasy of Flight/Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL.
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    Based at Florida Air Museum, Lakeland Municipal Airport, Lakeland, FL.
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    Markings Applied: 23694

    15 March 2011

    To Worlds Greatest Aircraft Collection Inc, Polk City, FL keeping c/r N52962.

    To Aerospace Discovery, the Florida Air Museum, Lakeland Municipal Airport, Lakeland, FL.
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    To Florida Air Museum, Lakeland Municipal Airport, Lakeland, FL.
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