This repaint, which requires the Microsoft Local Legends #5 (Beechcraft Model 18) product to be installed, depicts the restored Beechcraft UC-45J Expeditor BuNo.39750, currently registered to Van Horn Aviation LLC in Scottsdale, Arizona, as N12718. 

This aircraft was originally built in Wichita, Kansas for the US Navy in 1942 with the construction number 3211, as an SNB-1, fitted with a top turret, bomb bay, and a bomb sight within a glass nose. Enterring service, the aircraft was assigned to Naval Air Station Jacksonville, in Jacksonville, Florida, where it was used for bombing & gunnery as well as instrument training. In the early 1950s it was sent back to Beechcraft where it was significantly remanufactured for the Navy as an SNB-5, during which time it was converted into a purely transport version of the aircraft. In 1962, under the joint Air Force-Navy designation system, it was re-designated once again as a UC-45J (though it hadn't physically changed). The Navy continued to fly the aircraft until 1968, and in 1969 it was acquired by the North Carolina Department of Conservation & Development, a division of the US Forestry Service, based in Raleigh, North Carolina. This was when the aircraft was first registered as N12718, and finished in a civilian paint scheme of yellow & white with black stripes. After passing through several civilian owners between 1986 and 2000, the UC-45 was purchased in 2001 by William and Dewie Quotrup, of Plano, Texas, who contracted with Stetson Aviation to have the aircraft fully restored. Stripped of paint, the exterior was polished to a mirror-like finish and accurate WWII-era NAS Jacksonville markings were applied. The markings were based on an original wartime photo of another Jacksonville-based SNB (BuNo.39800), as well as original wartime technical orders and diagrams with precise measurements. Additionally, an executive-style interior was installed. Debuting at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2003, the aircraft won the "Best Transport" award for the quality of restoration. In 2010 it was sold to James Martin, a member of the Commemorative Air Force High Sky Wing in Midland, Texas, and Martin flew it to various airshows in the central US and kept the aircraft on display at the CAF Museum in Midland before selling it to its current caretakers in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 2019.

Version 1.2 features a very minor tweak/clean-up to the line of the antiglare shield at the base of the windscreen framing.

Version 1.1 contains both the original 4K version as well as a new higher-resolution 8K version of the repaint, which allow the markings to be sharper. A few small detail adjustments have also been incorporated into both versions of the repaint.