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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:Beaver I
    Last Military Serial:111 KAF
    Construction Number:1588
    Last Civil Registration:N542RP
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Beaver I sn 111...
    Latest Owner or Location:Dap Aviation Ventures Llc, Missoula, MT

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    Dates

    Event

    1965

    Constructed as a Beaver I.

    6 April 1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Kenyan Air Force with s/n 111.
    Date provided is the delivery date.

    By 1 January 1967


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    September 1978

    To East Africa Desert Locust Control Organization.

    1980

    To Lime Kiln Ltd.

    28 February 1980

    To Tamaam Inc, Anchorage, AK with new c/r N55955.

    28 February 1980

    To Tamaam Inc, Anchorage, AK with new c/r N5595S.

    Operated in Kenya to move big game hunters into the outback.

    3 January 1992

    Civil registration, N55955, cancelled.

    1992

    To Kisima Farm Ltd with new c/r 5Y-MMM.

    14 March 2000

    Deleted from the Kenyan registry.

    15 April 2002

    To 3638651 Canada Inc/Michael Potter/C-GXPM with new c/r C-GXPM.

    5 June 2003

    To Michael Urwin Potter, Ottawa, ON keeping c/r C-GXPM.

    November 2005

    Base of operations changed to: Vintage Wings of Canada, Gatineau, QC.
    Relocated to the new Vintage Wings of Canada hangar at the Gatineau Executive Airport at Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, when Vintage Wings moved in.
    View the Location Dossier

    17 April 2007

    Civil registration, C-GXPM, cancelled.

    25 April 2007

    To Vintage Wings of Canada/les Ailes Depoque Du Canada, Ottawa, ON with new c/r C-GXPM.
    Updated to indicate formal ownership.


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    24 July 2013

    To Flying Turtle Aviation Inc, Edmonton, AB keeping c/r C-GXPM.

    24 July 2013

    To unknown owner with c/r C-GXPM.

    7 May 2021

    To Dap Aviation Ventures Llc, Missoula, MT with new c/r N542RP.

    7 September 2021

    Certificate of airworthiness for N542RP (BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1, 1588) issued.
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    unreviewed imported data.
    If you can verify the documented history or add to it with additional text and/or photos please feel free to do so by using the upload tool and the history editor.
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     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Transport Canada
    Individual Contributors
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