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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:DHC-2 Beaver
    Construction Number:0086
    Last Civil Registration:N522PJ
    Latest Owner or Location:Parlu Ventures, Eagles Mere, PA

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    Dates

    Event

    11 September 1950

    Constructed as a DHC-2.
    DeHavilland South Africa.

    By 1952

    To Central African Airways Corporation with new c/r VP-YIL.
    Operated with markings: Duiker

    To Central African Airways with new c/r 7Q-YIL.

    1966

    To Air Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi keeping c/r 7Q-YIL.

    7 March 1969

    To Savage Air Service, Mittagong, NSW with new c/r VH-EPX.

    12 March 1974

    To C E Henderson, Bullo River, NT keeping c/r VH-EPX.

    1984

    To Amphibious Airways keeping c/r VH-EPX.

    24 June 1986


    Photographer: Danny Tanner
    Notes: AMPHIPIOUS AIRWAYS - DE HAVILLAND CANADA DHC-2 BEAVER MK1 - REG : VH-EPX (CN ) - NORSHIP MARINE LIFT CAIRNS QLD. AUSTRALIA

    Circa 5 July 1989

    Certificate of airworthiness for N454DL (DHC-2 MK. I(L20A), 86) issued.

    From 5 July 1989 to 19 March 1998

    To Donald L. Lee, Corona Del Mar, CA with new c/r N454DL.

    19 March 1998

    Civil registration, N454DL, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    12 May 1998

    To Gerald R Arnold, Edmonton, AB with new c/r CF-GRA.

    Markings Applied: 577

    2 November 2011

    To Angus Campbell, North Vancouver, BC keeping c/r CF-GRA.

    28 May 2012


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 2012 photo at Victoria BC

    25 June 2012

    To Duiker Aircraft, Victoria, BC keeping c/r CF-GRA.

    31 March 2013


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 2013 photo at Victoria BC

    5 November 2014

    To Armstrong J Russell, Commerce, TX with new c/r N522PJ.

    26 November 2014

    Certificate of airworthiness for N522PJ (DHC-2 MK. I(L20A), 86) issued.

    28 November 2014


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 2014 photo at Victoria BC - this old Beaver which, as CF-GRA, used to divide its time between Victoria (DND) and Boundary Bay. Here she is registered to a new owner in Texas.

    13 September 2015


    Photographer: Lee Armstrong
    Notes: Taken at the Ft. Worth Alliance Air Show

    1 October 2016


    Photographer: G.R.Dennis Price
    Notes: At the Ranger Antique Airfield Fly-In, Texas

    27 December 2018

    To Armstrong John Russell Jr Trustee, Commerce, TX keeping c/r N522PJ.

    14 June 2022

    To Parlu Ventures, Eagles Mere, PA keeping c/r N522PJ.


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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Transport Canada

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    Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher

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