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    Airframe Family: Short SC-7 Skyvan / SD3 / 330 / 360 / C-23 Sherpa
    Latest Model:C-23C Sherpa
    Last Military Serial:93-01330 US
    Construction Number:SH.3664
    Last Civil Registration:N491AK
    Latest Owner or Location:Win Win Aviation Inc, Wake Forest, NC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SD3-60.

    15 January 1985

    To Short Brothers, Belfast, Northern Ireland with new c/r G-BLTO.

    14 February 1985

    First flight.

    28 February 1985

    To Fairflight Charters, UK keeping c/r G-BLTO.

    28 February 1986

    Civil registration, G-BLTO, cancelled.
    Exported to Ireland.

    2 March 1986

    To Fairflight Charters, UK with new c/r EI-BSM.

    2 March 1986

    Leased to Aer Lingus, Dublin, Ireland.

    11 June 1986

    To Fairflight Charters, UK with new c/r G-BLTO.

    1 September 1986

    Leased to British Air Ferries, London Southend Airport, England.

    December 1987

    Leased to Guernsey Airlines, Guernsey, Channel Islands.

    June 1989

    Leased to LFG Aviation, United Kingdom.

    15 June 1989

    Civil registration, G-BLTO, cancelled.
    Exported to Sweden.

    15 June 1989

    To Avia Express, Jonkoping, Sweden with new c/r SE-KKZ.

    18 March 1992

    Civil registration, SE-KKZ, cancelled.
    Exported to the U.K.

    18 March 1992

    To LFG Aviation, United Kingdom with new c/r G-BLTO.

    1 June 1992

    Leased to CityFlyer Express, Crawley, UK.

    26 May 1995

    Civil registration, G-BLTO, cancelled.
    Exported to USA.

    26 February 1996

    To Shorts Aircraft Delivery, Inc, with new c/r N426SA.

    Converted to a C-23B+.
    New construction number, SH.3416/AK014, assigned to the airframe.
    Converted by Bombardiers West Virginia Air Center in Bridgeport, WV.

    August 1997

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 93-01330.

    August 1997

    Transferred to Company A, 249th Aviation Regiment, Detachment 3, ArNG, Rapid City Airport, SD.
    Operated with markings: Ms April

    4 November 1997

    Civil registration, N426SA, cancelled.

    11 September 1998


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA

    Converted to a C-23C.

    December 2013

    Assigned to Henry Post AAF, Fort Sill, OK for storage.

    18 December 2014

    To GlobalAsset Technologies Llc, Anchorage, AK.

    2 January 2015

    To Global Asset Technologies Llc, Anchorage, AK with new c/r N491AK.

    15 September 2015

    Certificate of airworthiness for N491AK (C-23B SHERPA, SH3416) issued.

    5 August 2022

    To Win Win Aviation Inc, Wake Forest, NC keeping c/r N491AK.

    17 September 2022


    Photographer: Mike Fuller
    Notes: KFEP-Freeport-Albertus Airport, Illinois
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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