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    Airframe Family: Cessna 172 Skyhawk / T-41 Mescalero
    Latest Model:172M
    Construction Number:172-63252
    Last Civil Registration:C-GDKX
    Compressed ID:Cessna 172M cn 172-63252 cr C-GDKX
    Latest Owner or Location:Rockcliffe Flying Club (1961), Ottawa, ON

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    Dates

    Event

    1974

    Constructed as a 172M.

    12 August 1980

    To Robert M. Grant, Las Vegas, NV with new c/r N5011R.

    5 December 1980

    Civil registration, N5011R, cancelled.

    From 30 March 1984 to 19 September 1984

    To Oshawa Flying Club, Oshawa, ON with new c/r C-GDKX (172M, 17263252).

    From By 1984 to 1 September 1992

    To Lois Opatril keeping c/r C-GDKX.

    From By 1992 to After 2022

    To Peter Charles Millard, Innisfil, ON keeping c/r C-GDKX.

    July 2017


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price

    18 December 2023

    To Rockcliffe Flying Club (1961), Ottawa, ON keeping c/r C-GDKX.
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