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    Airframe Family: Grumman G-21/JRF/OA-9/OA-13 Goose
    Latest Model:JRF-5 Goose
    Last Military Serial:57 MGR
    Construction Number:1187
    Last Civil Registration:C-FPCK
    Latest Owner or Location:Pacific Coastal Airlines Ltd, Richmond, BC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a JRF-5.

    1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 39748.

    July 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Marina de Guerra Revolucionaria with s/n 57.
    Was General Fulgencio Batistas personal aircraft.

    To unknown owner with c/r N2720A.

    To unknown owner with c/r CF-IFN.

    28 August 1990

    To Robert J. Holmsted, North Bend, OR with new c/r N8229.

    August 1991


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Renton, WA

    2 July 1996

    Civil registration, N8229, cancelled.

    3 July 1996

    To Pacific Coastal Airlines Ltd, Richmond, BC with new c/r C-FPCK.

    23 November 2005

    To Pacific Coastal Airlines Ltd, Richmond, BC keeping c/r C-FPCK.

    19 September 2008


    Photographer: John Olafson

    16 November 2008

    Crashed.
    There were seven fatalities and was one serious injury. The accident occurred at Vancouver, Canada. The airframe was destroyed. The foreign authority was the source of this information. On November 16, 2008, about 1030 Pacific Standard Time, a Grumman G-21A airplane, Canadian registration C-FPCK, collided with tree-covered terrain about 40 miles northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Impact forces and a postimpact fire destroyed the airplane...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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