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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:U-6A Beaver
    Last Military Serial:51-16861 US
    Construction Number:0432
    Last Civil Registration:N690DB
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada U-6A sn 51-1686...
    Latest Owner or Location:TS Beaver Llc, Sioux Falls, SD

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    Dates

    Event

    1952

    Constructed as a L-20A-DH.

    13 December 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 51-16861.

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as U-6A.

    From 5 September 1973 to 29 May 1974

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number UD045.

    7 May 1974

    To Prairie Lakes Vocational Center, Worthington, MN with new c/r N62278.

    28 April 1980

    Civil registration, N62278, cancelled.

    From May 1981 to 29 November 1995

    To Athabaska Airways Ltd, Prince Albert, SK with new c/r C-GMGV.

    May 1996

    To Clearwater Airways, Emo, ON keeping c/r C-GMGV.

    21 August 2001

    To Knee Lake Air Service Inc, Knee Lake, MB keeping c/r C-GMGV.

    22 February 2004


    Photographer: John Wolsafson
    Notes: Waiting out the long winter at Selkirk, Manitoba Feb 22, 2004.

    18 April 2006

    To Wamair Service and Outfitting Inc, Matheson Island, MB keeping c/r C-GMGV.

    5 December 2007

    To 3097448 Manitoba Ltd (Adventure Air), Lac du Bonnet, MB keeping c/r C-GMGV.

    21 May 2010

    To Central Flyway Air Inc (venture Air), Thompson, MB keeping c/r C-GMGV.

    26 May 2011

    To Kississing Lake Lodge Ltd (wings Over Kississing), Steinbach, MB keeping c/r C-GMGV.

    22 November 2013

    Civil registration, C-GMGV, cancelled.

    11 December 2013

    To Aviation 2 Inc, Hibbing, MN with new c/r N690DB.

    28 May 2014

    Certificate of airworthiness for N690DB (DHC-2 MK 1, 0432) issued.

    25 February 2023

    To TS Beaver Llc, Sioux Falls, SD keeping c/r N690DB.
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     DHC-2.com by Neil Aird
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Transport Canada
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
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