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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:Beaver I
    Last Military Serial:XP774 AAC
    Construction Number:1444
    Last Civil Registration:VH-AWY
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Beaver I sn XP7...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Whitsunday Seaplanes Pty. Ltd, Airlie Beach, QLD

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    Dates

    Event

    1960

    Constructed as a Beaver I.
    Dehavilland DHC-2 1444

    4 October 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Army Air Corps with s/n XP774.

    From June 1987 to April 1988

    To Wipaire Inc, Inver Grove Heights, MN with new c/r N9067F (DHC-2, 1444).

    1988


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 1988 photo on the Gold Coast, NSW, Australia

    5 April 1988

    Civil registration, N9067F, cancelled.

    31 May 1988

    To Seair Pacific, Shute Harbour, Whitsunday, QLD with new c/r VH-SSG.
    Based at Runaway Bay, QLD.

    31 May 1988

    To Air Whitsunday Seaplanes Pty. Ltd, Airlie Beach, QLD with new c/r VH-AWY.

    September 1990


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: VH-SSG in September 1990. Shute Harbour airfield had by now been renamed Whitsunday Airport

    June 1993

    To Tropic Bird, Whitsunday, QLD keeping c/r VH-SSG.

    March 1995

    To Coral Air Whitsunday, Airlie Beach, QLD keeping c/r VH-SSG.

    28 March 2000

    To Trans Tasmanian Air Services Pty Ltd, Airlie Beach, QLD with new c/r VH-AWY.

    6 November 2001

    To Air Whitsunday Seaplanes Pty. Ltd, Airlie Beach, QLD with new c/r VH-AWY.

    4 January 2006

    To Air Whitsunday Seaplanes Pty. Ltd, Airlie Beach, QLD with new c/r VH-AWY.


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    Australian Government, Civil Aviation Safety Authority
    DHC-2.com by Neil Aird
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America

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    Terry Fletcher

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