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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:Beaver I
    Construction Number:0883
    Last Civil Registration:N62657
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Beaver I cn 088...
    Latest Owner or Location:Mark L. Schmokel DBA, South Saint Paul, MN

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    Dates

    Event

    1956

    Constructed as a Beaver I.
    Dehavilland DHC-2 883

    30 November 1956

    To Societe Compagnie Laotienne de Commerce et de Transports with new c/r F-LAAJ.

    1 December 1958

    To Colin Roger keeping c/r F-LAAJ.

    29 April 1959

    To Societe Aigle Azur Extreme Orient keeping c/r F-LAAJ.

    24 March 1960

    To Aigle Azure International keeping c/r F-LAAJ.

    24 March 1960

    To Societe Compagnie Aigle Azur International, Paris with new c/r F-LAAJ (De Havilland Dhc-2, 883).
    Based at Vientiane.

    18 July 1960

    Civil registration, F-LAAJ, cancelled.

    September 1960

    To unknown owner with c/r XW-TAW.

    December 1960

    To unknown owner with c/r F-OBXS.

    December 1963

    To Superspread Aviation Australia with new c/r VH-IDB.

    February 1967


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Super Spread Aviation, Melbourne also operated many Beavers after the company was taken over by Aerial Agriculture in 1963.Super Spreads work area covered Victoria and southern NSW. VH-IDB was at Hamilton, Victoria in February 1967.

    6 April 1985


    Photographer: Danny Tanner
    Notes: At Melbourne Moorabbin

    1995

    Aircraft was still noted at Moorabbin, Melbourne.

    26 April 1996

    To Mark L. Schmokel DBA, South Saint Paul, MN with new c/r N62657 (DHC2, 883).

    29 July 1999

    Noted in storage at Mount Vernon, British Columbia, Canada.

    Parts used in the repair of other DHC-2s.

    28 July 2011

    Civil registration, N62657, cancelled.
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     AMCAR
    DGCA Civil Aircraft Register (France)
    DHC-2.com by Neil Aird
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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