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    Airframe Family: Noorduyn Norseman
    Latest Model:Norseman VI
    Last Military Serial:790 RCAF
    Construction Number:139
    Last Civil Registration:N420QN
    Compressed ID:Noorduyn Norseman VI sn 790 RCAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Charles F. Nichols Trustee, Baldwin Park, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UC-64A.

    From 10 June 1943 to 22 August 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 790.

    7 July 1943

    Converted to a Norseman VI.

    Transferred to Test and Development Establishment, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, ON.

    25 August 1955

    To Georgian Bay Airways of Perry Sound, ON with new c/r CF-IJG (Norseman Mk Vi, 139).

    25 August 1955

    To Georgian Bay Airways Limited, Parry Sound, ON keeping c/r CF-IJG.

    To Lloyd Street.
    Reported stored on farm near Gravenhurst, Ontario.

    Circa 1982

    Civil registration, CF-IJG, cancelled.

    18 August 2010

    To Charles F. Nichols Trustee, Baldwin Park, CA with new c/r N420QN.

    In the inventory of Yanks Air Museum, Chino Airport, Chino, CA.
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    17 November 2020

    To Charles F. Nichols Trustee, Baldwin Park, CA keeping c/r N420QN.

    26 January 2022


    Photographer: Adam Estes

    1 March 2023


    Photographer: Adam Estes

    1 March 2023


    Photographer: Adam Estes
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