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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:Turbo-Beaver III
    Construction Number:1672
    Last Civil Registration:C-GDTB {2}
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Turbo-Beaver II...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pacific Sky Aviation Inc, North Saanich, BC

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    Dates

    Event

    1967

    Constructed as a Turbo-Beaver III.

    To unknown owner with c/r CF-WSD.

    From 1970 to Circa 1984

    To Uganda Police Air Wing, Entebbe with new c/r 5X-UVU.

    2001

    Retrieved from Africa by Atlantic Salvage, Halifax, NS.

    11 February 2002

    To Atlantic Salvage, Halifax, NS with new c/r C-GJZX.

    23 July 2004

    To Viking Air Limited, Sidney, BC with new c/r C-GDTB {2}.

    14 June 2009


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: 2009 photo at Hamilton Airport, Canada

    29 August 2011

    To Pacific Sky Aviation Inc, North Saanich, BC keeping c/r C-GDTB {2}.

    10 April 2013

    Civil registration, C-GDTB {2}, cancelled.

    23 May 2013

    To Pacific Sky Aviation Inc, North Saanich, BC with new c/r C-GDTB {2}.

    23 May 2013

    To unknown owner with c/r C-GDTB {2}.

    29 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: at 2017 EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh
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     DHC-2.com by Neil Aird
    Transport Canada
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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