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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:U-6A Beaver
    Last Military Serial:56-0390 US
    Construction Number:1116
    Last Civil Registration:N116CX
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada U-6A sn 56-0390...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hon K. Kinzie, Anchorage, AK

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an U-6A.

    Circa 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 56-0390.

    Circa 1957


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Opa Locka Airport in Florida

    Circa 1975


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In OPF.

    20 January 1977

    Certificate of airworthiness for N116CX (DHC-2 MK. I(L20A), 1116) issued.

    25 November 1997

    To unknown owner with c/r C-GIKN (DHC-2 MK. I, 1116).

    3 May 1999

    To Thunderhook Holding Co Llc Nashville, TN with new c/r N116CX.

    By May 2002

    Based at Lake Hood, Anchorage, AK.
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    5 December 2002

    To RBG Bush Planes Llc, Anchorage, AK keeping c/r N116CX.

    21 August 2006

    Certificate of airworthiness for N116CX (DHC-2 MK. I(L20A), 1116) issued.

    21 May 2008


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2008 photo taken at Lake Hood, Anchorage, Alaska

    28 October 2020

    To Hon K. Kinzie, Anchorage, AK keeping c/r N116CX.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Transport Canada
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