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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:Turbo-Beaver III
    Construction Number:1562/TB-03
    Last Civil Registration:5Y-DLD
    Latest Owner or Location:Nairobi Wilson Airport, Nairobi, Nairobi Area

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    Dates

    Event

    1 January 1965

    Constructed as a Turbo-Beaver III.

    25 January 1965

    To Department of Lands and Forests with c/r CF-OEA.

    16 March 1972


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: CF-OEA at Winnipeg on 16Mar72 One of two Turbo-Beavers acquired by the Manitoba Government Air Service in 1972 from the Ontario MNR and still in Ontario yellow/black here. After disposal in 1990 it went to Kenya as a locust sprayer.

    From Circa 1986 to 17 April 1986

    To Province of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB with c/r C-FOEA.

    From 18 April 1986 to 17 April 1988

    To North-West Rentals Ltd, Lynn Lake, MB.

    From 23 August 1988 to 6 March 1990

    To Viking Air Ltd, Sidney, BC.

    April 1990

    To Desert Locust Control Organization, Wilson/Niarobi, Kenya with c/r 5Y-DLD.

    To Nairobi Wilson Airport, Nairobi, Nairobi Area.
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    13 June 2013


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At Wilson Airport, Nairobi, Kenya
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     DHC-2.com by Neil Aird
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     Terry Fletcher
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