Ca.1945: TOS USAAF as UC-45F 44-87309. By 8/50: 1101st Maintenance Squadron/1100th Maintenance & Support Group, Bolling AFB, Washington, DC. 1953: Remanufactured as C-45G and TOS as 51-11904. By 9/53: 28th Operations Support Squadron/28th ABW, Ellsworth AFB, SD. Converted to C-45H. By 3/60: Registered N3657G. 3/92: EXA Inc, St. Charles, IL; operated as skydive platform at Hinckley, IL. 7 Sep 92: Crashed after engine failure on takeoff. Wreckage acquired by the Norwegian Implement Company, Norway, IL; displayed in a crash scene as a memorial to the agricultural crash of the 1980s.
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