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Beech C-45 Stig

Aviation Cadet William O’Brien Mally (standing second from left). Mally, two other cadets, and their two trainers (wearing officer hats) in front of their Beech AT-7 Navigator twin-engine trainer. Mally trained at Mather Army Airfield.

Could well be the AT version of the C-45. Photo is very thin and it is impossible to see any "astrodome" on top. Stig

While it is true that the top of this print is is quite light and has almost no detail of the top of the fuselage, other images of an AT-7 lack an astrodome. Check-out the Pima Air and Space Museum’s (Tucson, AZ) AT-7. www.flickr.com/search/?group_id=787738%40N23&view_all...

Michael Mally Not sure what you mean here Michael. As far as I can see the Museum's AT-7 does have its astrodome (well metal navigation turret!) in place, even if the presentation of its USAAF s/n is a bit odd. Not a Beech 18 specialist by far, but to my knowledge all the AT-7s were built with that feature in place. Can't see any reason why the turret should have been removed here. A few were modified, and had it removed, while still in use by the AAF but that was during the post war period. Many AT-7s, when sold to civil users, after the war certainly had it removed. How original and what changes the museum's AT-7 has gone through is beyond me. Stig

Courtesy of Malcolm Fillmore via Air-Britain's ABIX forum we have an excellent compact history of H J White's aircraft incl. a Stinson, and this Beech 17 Henry White was employed by Vacuum Oil as their UK based Aviation Representative at Heston between (at least) 1933 and 1936. Also based at Heston with Vacuum Oil and flown by White were Stinson Junior R NC12157 (deld Heston July 1932 and later OO-HVS) and Beech 17 NC12584 (which did a European tour in August 1934).

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