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    Airframe Family: Noorduyn Norseman
    Latest Model:Norseman V
    Construction Number:N29-47
    Last Civil Registration:C-FGSR
    Compressed ID:Noorduyn Norseman V cn N29-47 cr C-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Canadian Warplane Heritage, Mount Hope, ON

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    Dates

    Event

    1950

    Constructed as a Norseman V.
    Built by Canadian Car and Foundry

    7 June 1950

    To Canadian Forest Products Ltd, Vancouver, BC with new c/r CF-GSR.

    1955

    To D. D. Thompson Aviation Ltd, Montreal, QC keeping c/r CF-GSR.

    1961

    To Austin Airways, Toronto, ON keeping c/r CF-GSR.

    By 31 December 1971

    To Northland Fisheries Ltd, Winnipeg, MB keeping c/r CF-GSR.

    1972

    To Slate Falls Airways, Sioux Lookout, ON keeping c/r CF-GSR.

    31 March 1975

    To Silver Pine Air Service, Pine Falls, MB keeping c/r CF-GSR.

    14 May 1986

    To Bearskin Lake Air Service with new c/r C-FGSR.

    20 July 1986


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: C-FGSR at Sioux Lookout/ON on 20Jul86 - In 2014 this Norseman Mk.V became part of the Canadian Warplane Heritage collection at Hamilton/ON. Here it was still in operation with Bearskin Lake Air Service.

    22 April 1992

    To Icarus Aviation Inc, Sioux Lookout, ON keeping c/r C-FGSR.

    18 June 1993

    To Stewart Lake Airways Ltd, Vermilion Bay, ON keeping c/r C-FGSR.

    22 September 1997

    To Huron Air and Outfitters keeping c/r C-FGSR.

    22 September 1997

    To Huron Air and Outfitters Incorporated, Armstrong, ON keeping c/r C-FGSR.

    2014

    To Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Hamilton, ON.

    24 June 2014

    Civil registration, C-FGSR, cancelled.

    16 July 2014

    To Canadian Warplane Heritage, Mount Hope, ON with new c/r C-FGSR.

    10 July 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier

    10 July 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
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     Norseman History by Don Magnusson amp; Roy Dishlevoy
    Transport Canada
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     Terry Fletcher
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