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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-6/UV-18/CC-138 Twin Otter
    Latest Model:DHC-6-300 Twin Otter
    Construction Number:244
    Last Civil Registration:9M-KIP
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 cn 24...
    Latest Owner or Location:SKS Airways

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    Dates

    Event

    1969

    Constructed as a DHC-6-300.

    28 May 1969

    First flight.

    10 October 1969

    To Alaska Airlines with new c/r N100AS.

    April 1978

    To Surinam Airways with new c/r PZ-TAX.

    January 1980

    To Bannock Aerospace with new c/r C-GBPU.

    3 June 1980

    To Trans-West Airlines with new c/r VH-TNM.

    August 1982


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Trans West Airlines, VH-TNM, used on a scheduled courier service for Australian Iron and Steel company between Derby WA and its iron ore mines on Koolan Island and Cockatoo Island. Seen at Perth Airport in August 1982

    By 8 August 1991

    To Islands Nationair with new c/r P2-IAA.

    3 January 1995

    Crashed.
    Summary: The airframe was written off. The training flight departed Bili Airstrip, Papua New Guinea. The accident occurred at Bili (Papua New Guinea) while taking off. Narrative: Directional control lost on takeoff. The Twin Otter ran off the runway onto a soft grass area. The nosegear collapsed. Reported damaged beyond repair by TPAPL.
    For a complete description of the event read the Aviation Safety Network Report.

    29 November 2000

    To Samoa Aviation with new c/r N244MV.

    2 September 2002

    To Samoa Aviation with new c/r N804AS.

    20 February 2003

    To Alberta Aircraft Leasing Inc, Las Vegas, NV keeping c/r N804AS.

    16 July 2004

    Civil registration, N804AS, cancelled.

    5 August 2004

    To Ashe Aircraft Enterprises with new c/r C-FBLY.

    24 February 2007

    To Barrick Servicios Mineros with new c/r CC-PQI.

    2 January 2015

    To Texas Air Services Inc, Dickinson, TX with new c/r N244AD.

    2 April 2015

    Civil registration, N244AD, cancelled.
    Exported to Switzerland.

    10 April 2015

    To RUAG Aerospace with new c/r HB-LRJ.

    By 28 August 2015

    To unknown owner with c/r HB-LRJ.

    28 August 2015

    Civil registration, HB-LRJ, cancelled.

    28 August 2015

    To European Coastal Airlines with new c/r 9A-TOB.

    September 2015

    To Europski Obalni Avioprijevoznik D. O. O keeping c/r 9A-TOB.

    27 September 2015


    Photographer: Vince Horan
    Notes: DHC6 Twin Otter 9A-TOB at Split in Croatia

    3 July 2017

    To RUAG Aviation RUAG Schweiz AG, Emmen, Switzerland with new c/r HB-LRJ.

    6 April 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Bern - Belp, Bern, Switzerland

    By January 2021

    To SKS Airways with new c/r 9M-KIP.


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    John Bennett
    Mario Richard

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