Aircraft Photo of N494 | Beech C-45G Expeditor | Charlotte County Mosquito Control | AirHistory.net #227037
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:N494
Aircraft Original Type:Beech 18
Aircraft Generic Type:Beech 18 (C-45)
Aircraft Version:Beech C-45G Expeditor
C/n (msn):AF-466
Operator Titles:Charlotte County Mosquito Control
Location
City / Airport:Punta GordaMap
Region / Country:Florida, United States
Airport Codes:ICAO: KPGD   IATA: PGD   Local: PGD   Other: -
 
Photo Date:16 November 1979
Photo by:Danny Grew
Photo ID: 227037
Photo Comment

Titles are on the sticker with a caricature of a mosquito. Later on in life this aircraft was sold to Australia and crashed on take-off from Oakland CA. on 7 Mar 93. It was en route to Honolulu on its delivery flight. The probable cause given in the NTSB report was "A premature lift off and inadvertent stall by the pilot-in-command. Contributing to the accident was insufficient available aircraft performance data after a ferry tank installation and both pilot's lack of total experience in the airplane."

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