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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:L-20A-DH Beaver
    Construction Number:1041
    Last Civil Registration:N930TG
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada L-20A-DH cn 104...
    Latest Owner or Location:RDM Pilot/Guide Ltd, Ketchikan, AK

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    Dates

    Event

    1957

    Constructed as a L-20A-DH.
    Dehavilland DHC-2 MK. I(L20A) 1041

    24 May 1957

    To K. J. Springer, Toronto, ON with new c/r CF-JXP.

    1960

    To Pacific Western Airlines Ltd, Vancouver, BC keeping c/r CF-JXP.

    Circa 1967

    To Northward Aviation Ltd, Edmonton, AB keeping c/r CF-JXP.

    1972

    To Arthur Fecteau/Fecteau Transport Aerien Ltee., Senneterre, QC keeping c/r CF-JXP.

    By 1975

    To Cranson Lake Airways, Chapeau, QC keeping c/r CF-JXP.

    Circa 1980

    To Bradley Air Services Ltd, Carp, ON with new c/r C-FJXP.

    10 April 1990

    To Hauleminn Air Service Inc, Kipawa, ON keeping c/r C-FJXP.

    5 June 1991

    To Southern Interior Flight Centre Ltd, Kelowna, BC keeping c/r C-FJXP.

    19 June 1991

    To Ted Gerken Trustee, Anchorage, AK with new c/r N930TG.

    18 August 1991

    Certificate of airworthiness for N930TG (DHC-2 MK. I(L20A), 1041) issued.

    25 August 1999

    Crashed.
    The accident occurred at Iliamna, AK, United States while taking off. The damage was substantial. The certificated commercial pilot was attempting to takeoff from a lake with 2 feet tall, rolling swells. The pilot said that during the takeoff run, before a safe flying airspeed was attained, the airplane floats struck a large wave and the airplane lifted off the water prematurely. He said that before he could react, the left wing stalled and the airplane collided with the water...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    By 2003

    Operated by Iliaska Lodge, Iliamna, AK.

    25 June 2003

    Crashed.
    The accident occurred at Iliamna, AK, United States while taking off. The damage was substantial. The solo commercial certificated pilot was departing from a remote lake in a float-equipped airplane. The pilot reported that this was the first time he had been assigned to fly the accident airplane and that the airplanes main fuel valve was different than that of any other DHC-2 he had previously flown...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    July 2003


    Photographer: David A. Montgomery
    Notes: N930TG DHC-2 Beaver of Iliaska Lodge, Iliamna, Alaska, is tied down beside Lake Hood Airstrip, Anchorage in July 2003

    10 January 2006

    To RDM Pilot/Guide Ltd, Ketchikan, AK keeping c/r N930TG.
    Alaska Seaplane Tours.

    18 June 2017

    Crashed.
    There were five minor injuries. The accident occurred at Ketchikan, AK, United States while taking off. The damage was substantial. On June 18, 2017, about 1330 Alaska daylight time, a float-equipped de Havilland DHC-2 (Beaver) airplane N930TG, impacted water and subsequently sank during takeoff from Big Goat Lake, about 45 miles northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska. Of the seven occupants on board, the commercial pilot and four passengers sustained minor injuries and two passengers were not injured...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    29 May 2020

    Civil registration, N930TG, cancelled.
    Aircraft salvaged from Big Goat Lake.


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