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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:U-6A Beaver
    Last Military Serial:52-6135 US
    Construction Number:0525
    Last Civil Registration:N463MH
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada U-6A sn 52-6135...
    Latest Owner or Location:J. W. Duff Aircraft Salvage, Stapleton International Airport (formerly), Denver, Colorado

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a L-20A-DH.

    16 July 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 52-6135.

    New construction number, 1297, assigned to the airframe.
    The Army assigned their own c/n.

    1962

    Redesignated as U-6A.

    February 1989


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Clearwater Airport, FL

    By 1992

    To Florida Military Aviation Museum, Clearwater, Saint Peterburg, FL.
    Museum now closed to allow expansion to USCG facilities.
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    17 March 1992


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    To Florida Aviation Museum, Wauchula Municipal Airport, Wauchula, FL.
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    29 July 2003


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: My daughter poses with this ex US Army U-6A Beaver at Wauchula, Florida. 52-6135

    To J W. Duff DBA, Denver, CO with new c/r N463MH (U-6A-DH, 52-6135).

    In the inventory of J. W. Duff Aircraft Salvage, Stapleton International Airport (formerly), Denver, CO.
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    1 July 2013

    Civil registration, N463MH, cancelled.


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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden

    Internet Sources
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

    Individual Contributors
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols

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