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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:Beaver AL.1
    Last Military Serial:XV270 AAC
    Construction Number:1621
    Last Civil Registration:C-GBZE
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Beaver AL.1 sn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Cottage Air Inc, Bracebridge, ON

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    Dates

    Event

    1966

    Constructed as a Beaver AL.1.

    3 February 1967

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Army Air Corps with s/n XV270.

    Transferred to Advanced Fixed Wing Flight (AFWF), AAC Middle Wallop, Hampshire.

    12 April 1979


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: Beaver AL.1, XV270 securely tied down as it gets an engine change at RAF Aldergrove.

    15 May 1989

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at RAF Shawbury.

    From 17 November 1989 to 18 February 1995

    To Wipaire with new c/r N2162T.

    From 22 February 1995 to 7 March 1995

    To Dennis F. Doersam, Southport, MB with new c/r C-FUEZ.

    8 March 1995

    Certificate of airworthiness for N1621 (DHC-2, 1621) issued.

    3 August 1995

    Certificate of airworthiness for N622JM (DHC-2, 1621) issued.

    3 August 1995

    To JM Transportation, Wilmington, DE with new c/r N622JM.

    7 August 2001

    To James R. Fox, Saint Paul, MN with new c/r N1621.

    29 July 2009

    To MKL Aviation Management Llc, Bellevue, WA keeping c/r N1621.

    14 August 2010


    Photographer: David Lednicer
    Notes: A Beaver with a beautiful paint scheme visiting Roche Harbor, WA

    Based at Kenmore Air Harbor, Seattle, WA.
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    Based at Roche Harbor Airport (RCE), San Juan, WA.
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    3 February 2014

    Civil registration, N1621, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    28 February 2014

    To Bourque Bouchier Holdings Ltd, Fort McMurrary, AB with new c/r C-GBZE.

    28 April 2021

    To Cottage Air Inc, Bracebridge, ON keeping c/r C-GBZE.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Transport Canada
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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     Terry Fletcher
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