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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-5/C-8/CC-115 Buffalo
    Latest Model:CC-115 Buffalo
    Last Military Serial:115460 CAF
    Construction Number:14
    Last Civil Registration:Z-SRB
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada CC-115 sn 11546...
    Latest Owner or Location:Sky Relief Ltd, Zimbabwe

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    Dates

    Event

    11 December 1967

    Constructed as a CC-115.
    Rollout date provided.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 9460.

    31 January 1968

    Transferred to No. 429 (Tac T) Squadron.

    27 May 1970

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Canadian Armed Forces with s/n 115460.

    From October 1973 to July 1979

    Transferred to No. 116 Air Tranport Unit, Middle East.
    Served with the UN in an overall white finish and UN markings.

    By September 1980


    Photographer: Mil-Slides

    To de Havilland Canada with new c/r CF-LAQ {2}.
    Loaned back to DHC.


    Photographer: Unknown

    From Circa 1980 to Circa 1982

    Transferred to No. 424 (T and R) Squadron, CFB Trenton, ON.

    1982

    Transferred to No. 442 Squadron, CFB Comox, BC.

    June 1990

    Spotted visiting CFB Borden in Ontario.

    Assigned to CFB Mountainview, ON for storage.
    Withdrawn from use.

    May 1994

    Spotted in storage at Mountainview without the horizontal and vertical tails and still in camouflage markings.

    1994

    First offered for sale.

    18 January 1996

    To Sky Relief Ltd, Zimbabwe with new c/r Z-SRB.

    Ferry flight.
    Delivered via Goose Bay, Iceland, Newcastle, Corfu to Harare, Zimbabwe.


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