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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:U-6A Beaver
    Last Military Serial:56-4443 US
    Construction Number:1193
    Last Civil Registration:N454FU
    Latest Owner or Location:Audie Spencer Davis, Wasilla, AK

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1957

    Constructed as a L-20A-DH.

    21 February 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 56-4443.

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as U-6A.

    From 21 January 1972 to 12 February 1976

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number HS116.

    To unknown owner with c/r N3067F.

    Circa 1976

    To Green Airways Ltd, Red Lake, ON with new c/r C-GEZV.

    11 October 1984

    To Air Roberval keeping c/r C-GEZV.

    April 1997

    To S. P. Aero, Anchorage, AK with new c/r N454SP.

    30 May 1997

    Certificate of airworthiness for N454FU (BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1, 1193) issued.

    30 January 2001

    To Alaska Lodges Inc, Saint Petersburg, FL keeping c/r N454SP.

    4 May 2010

    To Alaskas Fishing Unlimted Inc, Port Alsworth, AK with new c/r N454FU.

    9 June 2010


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Lake Hood, Anchorage

    12 June 2018

    To Alaskas Fishing Unlimted Inc, Port Alsworth, AK keeping c/r N454FU.

    July 2019


    Photographer: Steve Barnes
    Notes: At Kenai, AK

    19 January 2023

    To Audie Spencer Davis, Wasilla, AK keeping c/r N454FU.

    19 July 2023


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: N454FU awaiting reconstruction at Lake Hood, AK
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     DHC-2.com by Neil Aird
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
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