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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-5/C-8/CC-115 Buffalo
    Latest Model:CC-115 Buffalo
    Last Military Serial:115457 CAF
    Construction Number:11
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada CC-115 sn 11545...
    Latest Owner or Location:Comox Air Force Museum, CFB Comox, Lazo, British Columbia

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    Dates

    Event

    1967

    Constructed as a CC-115.

    14 November 1967

    First flight.

    26 December 1967

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 115457.

    27 December 1967

    Transferred to No. 429 (Tactical Transport) Squadron, RCAF Station Saint. Hubert, QC.

    27 May 1970

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Canadian Armed Forces with s/n 115457.

    By March 1976

    Converted to SAR configuration.


    Photographer: Unknown

    From By 1979 to After 1994

    Transferred to 413 Transport and Rescue Squadron, CFB Greenwood, NS.

    9 August 1991


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL. Photographed from the control tower.

    9 August 1991


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL.

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Departing DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL. Seen from the control tower

    June 1994


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photo taken at the Quinte International Airshow, Trenton, Ontario.

    June 2003


    Photographer: John Wolsafson
    Notes: The RCAF Buffalo were retired too soon. Their replacements are going to take several years to be ready, so they have replaced them temporarily with Hercules aircraft. Photo taken in June 2003

    4 April 2005


    Photographer: John W. Olafson
    Notes: This was the last flight for one of the pilots before he retired. Take off from Vernon to Comox

    By 2006

    Transferred to : 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron/19th Wing, CFB Comox, BC.


    Photographer: Unknown

    2020

    Based at Comox Air Force Museum, CFB Comox, Lazo, BC.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Military Aircraft Serials of North America by S. Mitchell and A Eastwood
    Internet Sources
     Air History.org
    Kestrel Publications
    Plane Logger
    RZJets
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Jeff Hunt
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