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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-4/C-7 Caribou
    Latest Model:DHC-4A Caribou
    Last Military Serial:204 KAF
    Construction Number:240
    Last Civil Registration:N400NC
    Compressed ID:deHavilland Canada DHC-4A sn 204 KA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Newcal Aviation Inc, Little Ferry, NJ

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    Event

    Constructed as a DHC-4A by deHavilland Canada at Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
    Dehavilland CARIBOU DHC-4A 240

    12 September 1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Kenyan Air Force with s/n 204.

    June 1986

    To Newcal Aviation Inc, Little Ferry, NJ with new c/r 5Y-BER.
    Stored at Malta.

    July 1986

    To Newcal Aviation Inc, Little Ferry, NJ with new c/r N400NC.

    2 April 1989


    Photographer: Peter M. Garwood
    Notes: During the 1980s several ex-military Caribous were flown from Europe to the USA. Two of them stopped at Ipswich Airport en route. N400NC was destroyed in a fatal crash in Canada after conversion to turboprop

    27 August 1992

    Crashed.
    Summary: The airframe was written off. There were three fatalities. It was a local testing flight from Gimli Airport, MB (YGM/GYGM), Canada. The accident occurred at Gimli Airport, MB (YGM) (Canada) while in the initial climb. Narrative: The aircraft took off for a test flight for a turbine-engine conversion programme. It climbed steeply, rolled to the right and crashed in a nose-down, rightwing-low attitude.
    For a complete description of the event read the Aviation Safety Network Report.

    7 July 1994

    Civil registration, N400NC, cancelled.
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