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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:Beaver AL.1
    Last Military Serial:XP808 AAC
    Construction Number:1458
    Last Civil Registration:C-FAWY
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Beaver AL.1 sn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Northern Uniform Service Corp., Sudbury, ON

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Beaver AL.1.

    21 June 1961

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Army Air Corps with s/n XP808.

    To 131 Flight RCT, RAF Wildenrath, Germany.
    Denis Halls comments (3 March 2017): I serviced this aircraft when it was based at 131 flight RCT later becoming an army air corps flight at RAF Wildenrath in Germany in the 1970s.

    Transferred to Army Air Corps Flight, RAF Wildenrath, Germany.

    By 1976

    Transferred to Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough.

    By December 1976

    Transferred to RAF Saint. Athan, Wales.

    June 1987

    To Wipaire Inc, Inver Grove Heights, MN with new c/r N9066P (DHC-2, 1458).

    5 April 1988

    Civil registration, N9066P, cancelled.

    1 August 1997

    To Robert A Rowe, Red Lake, ON.

    16 July 2009

    Assigned civil registration: C-FAWY (DHC-2 MK. I, 1458)

    15 July 2010

    To Nancy A Rowe (Snake Falls Camp and Airways), Red Lake, ON keeping c/r C-FAWY.

    Based at Red Lake Airport, Cochenour, ON.
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    14 June 2017

    Civil registration, C-FAWY, cancelled.

    9 August 2017

    To Northern Uniform Service Corp., Sudbury, ON with new c/r C-FAWY.

    18 April 2018


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At Sun N Fun, Lakeland, Florida
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     Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Transport Canada
    Individual Contributors
     Denis Halls
    Peter Nicholson
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