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    Airframe Family: Beech 45/T-34 Mentor
    Latest Model:T-34A Mentor
    Last Military Serial:53-4193 USAF
    Construction Number:G-293
    Last Civil Registration:N12281
    Compressed ID:Beech T-34A sn 53-4193 USAF cn G-29...
    Latest Owner or Location:John P. Flippen, Bonita, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-34A.

    Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-4193.

    By 18 April 1957

    Transferred to Marana AB, Marana, AZ.

    18 April 1957

    Merle Wessel comments (19 April 2015): Aircraft was at Marana AB, Marana, AZ. This is the date I soloed in it while in USAF Pilot Traning.

    May 1957


    Photographer: Merle Wessel
    Notes: Taken on flight line at Marana AB, Marana, AZ during an open house in May 1957.

    29 December 1988

    Certificate of airworthiness for N12281 (A45, G-293) issued.

    21 May 1997

    To James P. Blasingame Trustee, Del Mar, CA with new c/r N12281.

    Based at Montgomery Field, San Diego, CA.
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    To Gillespie Field, San Diego, CA.
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    Markings Applied: N12281

    8 October 2003

    To N12281 Llc, Chula Vista, CA keeping c/r N12281.

    12 October 2012


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California.

    27 March 2014

    To John P. Flippen, Bonita, CA keeping c/r N12281.

    By March 2017

    Markings Applied: 293, CA
    In USN colour scheme.

    11 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS El Centro Airshow
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
    Merle Wessel
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