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    Airframe Family: Beech 45/T-34 Mentor
    Latest Model:A45
    Last Military Serial:55-0172 USAF
    Construction Number:G-729
    Last Civil Registration:N5172
    Compressed ID:Beech A45 sn 55-0172 USAF cn G-729...
    Latest Owner or Location:William J. Beitler, Eighty Four, PA

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    Dates

    Event

    1955

    Constructed as an A45.

    Circa 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 55-0172.

    1 March 1965

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5172 (A45, G-729) issued.

    To unknown owner with c/r N12260.

    To unknown owner with c/r N5172.

    20 June 1988

    To William J. Beitler, Washington, PA with new c/r N5172.

    17 December 1997

    To William J. Beitler, Eighty Four, PA with new c/r N5172.

    1 January 2001

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5172 (A45, G-729) issued.

    18 April 2007


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

    26 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Visitor to 2011 Oshkosh

    27 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2017 EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh
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