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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:U-6A Beaver
    Last Military Serial:53-2799 USAF
    Construction Number:0591
    Last Civil Registration:N684DD
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada U-6A sn 53-2799...
    Latest Owner or Location:Donaueschingen Villingen, Donaueschingen, Baden-Wurttemberg

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a L-20A-DH.

    Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-2799.

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as U-6A.

    11 October 1988

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR130WA (DHC-2 MK. I(L20A), 591) issued.

    18 June 1997

    To Grandy Lake Forest Ltd Partnership, MT Vernon, WA with new c/r N130WA.

    27 April 2003


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: N130WA at Aero 2003, Friedrichshafen, Germany

    2 January 2008

    To Aircraft Guaranty Management Llc Trustee, Houston, TX keeping c/r N130WA.

    19 April 2009


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: at Grenchen LSZG

    1 January 2011

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR130WA (DHC-2 MK. I(L20A), 591) issued.

    Circa 1 January 2011

    To Aircraft Guaranty Corp Trustee, Houston, TX keeping c/r N130WA.

    23 August 2011

    To Aircraft Guaranty Corp Trustee, Onalaska, TX keeping c/r N130WA.

    13 May 2014

    To Drean Gary, Rancho Santa Fe, CA keeping c/r N130WA.

    13 May 2014

    To Drean Gary, Rancho Santa Fe, CA with new c/r N684DD.

    29 May 2014

    Certificate of airworthiness for N684DD (DHC-2 MK. I(L20A), 591) issued.

    Based at Donaueschingen Villingen, Donaueschingen, Baden-Wurttemberg.
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