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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:Turbo-Beaver III
    Construction Number:0763
    Last Civil Registration:ZK-SBV
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Turbo-Beaver II...
    Latest Owner or Location:Zodie Investments Limited, Karamea

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    Dates

    Event

    1 January 1955

    Constructed as a Turbo-Beaver III.

    18 February 1955

    To Arthur Sewell, C/O Ontario Paper Company Ltd, Thorold, ON with new c/r CF-HXX.

    To Quebec North Shore Paper Company keeping c/r CF-HXX.

    Circa 1964

    To BC Air Lines Ltd, Vancouver, BC keeping c/r CF-HXX.

    To Island Airlines Ltd, Campbell River, BC keeping c/r CF-HXX.

    1975

    To Island Airlines Ltd, Campbell River, BC with new c/r C-FHXX.

    By 1981

    To Air BC Ltd, Richmond, BC keeping c/r C-FHXX.

    5 May 1982

    To Air Nootka, Tahsis, BC keeping c/r C-FHXX.

    11 June 1988

    Involved in an incident.
    At Chamiss Bay, BC - Capsized and sank while under tow.

    July 1988

    To unknown owner with c/r VH-SYS.

    8 March 1994

    To Stephen Allsep, MT Pritchard, NSW keeping c/r VH-SYS.

    8 March 1994

    To Richard Norman Lionel Thompson, East Ryde, NSW with new c/r VH-ACZ.

    8 March 1994

    To Stephen Allsep, Liverpool, NSW with new c/r VH-SYS.

    1 May 2006

    To Stephen Allsep, Liverpool, NSW keeping c/r VH-SYS.

    5 May 2013


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 2013 photo at Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (H. A. R. S.), Wollongong Airport, Wollongong, New South Wales.

    1 June 2015

    To Richard Thompson, East Ryde, NSW keeping c/r VH-SYS.

    Circa 16 January 2017

    Certificate of airworthiness for VH-SYS (DEHAVILLAND DHC-2, 763) issued.

    16 January 2017

    Civil registration, VH-SYS, cancelled.

    To Stefan Douglas Brown, Karamea with new c/r ZK-SBV.

    5 June 2018

    To Zodie Investments Limited, Karamea keeping c/r ZK-SBV.
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    Australian Government, Civil Aviation Safety Authority
    Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand
    DHC-2.com by Neil Aird
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     Terry Fletcher
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