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owner unknown
USA
A beautiful shot of the newly converted N8693E, taken at Peoria, IL.
Photo courtesy of unknown
- July 1959 - exported to Venezuela.
owner unknown
Venezuela
- date unknown - exported to The West Indies.
True Blue Beach Resorts Ltd.
Grenada, West Indies
A rare shot of VQ-GAA, date and location unknown.
Photo courtesy of Ken Tilley via Air Britain
- Exported back to the USA when True Blue Beach Resorts was liquidated.
Malcolm Jacobs Company
St. Louis, MO, USA
- February 1962 - Extensive repairs made to the forward fuselage following a nose gear collapse.
Robert Mayer
Milwaukee, WI, USA
James Murphy
East Peoria, IL, USA
James Murphy and Ernest Simmons
East Peoria, IL, USA
- July 1967 - Repairs made following an accident, in which N8693E was taxied into another airplane.
- May 10, 1969 - An abrupt application of power to the right hand engine during takeoff took N8693E off the Marco Island, FL runway and into the sand at the end. The landing gear collapsed. (NTSB report MIA69D0488)
Donald Condee
Mt. Sterling, IL, USA
John Ernst
Ridgecrest, CA, USA
Charles Kennedy Jr.
Waynesboro, VA, USA
Charles Kennedy Jr.
Fishersville, VA, USA
Like many American planes, N8693E was repainted to celebrate the USA's bicentennial in 1976 .
Photo courtesy of the American Navion Society
Seen at Rialto, CA in April 1975.
Photo courtesy of the Pima Air & Space Museum
Patriotic N8693E in the late 1970s.
Photo courtesy of Ken McTavish
Charles Kennedy Jr.
Farmington Hills, MI, USA
- June 1978 - Repairs made to the tail cone, left wing spar and left tip tank.
With a damaged tail, N8693E spent months being repaired.
Photo courtesy of the American Navion Society
Charles Kennedy Jr.
Waynesboro, VA, USA
Moody Larsen
Belleville, MI, USA
- The aircraft was partially disassembled and unairworthy for a decade.
Parked in the grass at Larsen Field, 1987.
Photo courtesy of Michael Jones via Facebook
Robert Nitschke
Pemberville, OH, USA
Navion Holdings, Inc.
Millbury, OH, USA
Aircraft Holding LLC
Perryburg, OH, USA
Harry Pinter
Belleville, MI, USA
Euro Wings, Inc.
Wilmington, DE, USA
- Owner Bruce Smith was a former airline Captain for Pan Am Airlines and plans on changing the registration of N8693E to N408PA in honor of one of the 707s he flew. He says, "I have fond memories of that airplane. Charles Lindberg was in the cockpit when I landed that airplane in Beyruit."