Beech C-45/SNB5 Expeditor Specifications:
Other Beechcraft C-45 Expeditors and a Beech Super 18 at other aviation museums in the northeast |
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| Another Beech C-45 Expeditor can be found at the Air Mobility Command Museum in Dover, DE | A Beech C-45 Expeditor at the Historical Aircraft Restoration Program at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, NY |
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| A Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan at the US Air Force Museum in Dayton, OH | The civilian version of the C-45, the Beechcraft Super 18, can be found at the Mid Atlantic Air Museum in Reading, PA |
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| A Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor at the 1941 Historical Aircraft Group in Geneseo, NY | Beechcraft E-18S Expeditor at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Mount Hope, Ontario, Canada |
Length: 34 feet, 3 inches
Wingspan: 47 feet, 8 inches
Height: 10 feet, 0 inches
Crew: 2 + 4
Weight: Empty 5,900lbs Loaded - 7,800 lbs
Max Speed: 224 mph
Cruise Speed: 145 mph
Range: 745 miles
Service Ceiling: 20,000 feet
Powerplant: Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-1 Wasp Junior 450hp
Fuel Capacity: 250 gallons
First Flight : 1943
Cost: $59,000
Here's a Youtube Video of a C-45 Expeditor taking off viewed from the cabin. Although it was not a C-45, the "Flight of the Phoenix" aircraft used wings from a C-45. This Youtube Video shows that stunt plane with the C-45 wings doing flybys then crashing, killing the pilot Paul Mantz.. Not exactly a successful airframe design. One more C-45 Youtube Video features the Commemorative Air Force's Expeditor taxiing in the first few seconds of the segment.
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