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    Airframe Family: Pilatus P-3 / PC-7
    Latest Model:P-3-05
    Last Military Serial:A-818 SwiAF
    Construction Number:456-5
    Last Civil Registration:HB-RCH
    Compressed ID:Pilatus P-3-05 sn A-818 SwiAF cn 45...
    Latest Owner or Location:Associazione RCH, C/O Valerio Caroni, via Rinaldo Simen, 94 6648 Minusio S, witzerland

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    Dates

    Event

    1955

    Constructed as a P-3-05.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n A-818.

    13 September 1995

    To Associazione RCH, C/O Valerio Caroni, via Rinaldo Simen, 94 6648 Minusio S, witzerland with new c/r HB-RCH (P3-05, 456-5).

    25 June 2011


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Ecuvillens, Switzerland

    6 September 2013


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At 2013 Oldtimer-Fliegertreffen Hahnweide, one of Europes largest historic aircraft air shows.

    5 July 2021


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: HB-RCH in the hangar at Locarno, Switzerland
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     Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft Confederation Suisse
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     Terry Fletcher
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