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    Airframe Family: Grumman G-21/JRF/OA-9/OA-13 Goose
    Latest Model:JRF-6B Goose
    Last Military Serial:34071 USN
    Construction Number:1200
    Last Civil Registration:CF-PVE
    Compressed ID:Grumman JRF-6B sn 34071 USN cn 1200...
    Latest Owner or Location:West Coast Air Services

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a JRF-5.
    Grumman G-21 1200

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 34071.

    30 June 1953

    Converted to a JRF-6B.

    September 1956

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    1 October 1956

    To unknown owner with c/r N9547C.

    From 4 February 1957 to 1964

    To Coastal Aero, Houston, TX with new c/r N27Q.

    From 1965 to 1968

    To Northern Mountain Airlines, Prince George BC with new c/r CF-PVE.

    From 1969 to 1972

    To Midwest Airlines, Winnipeg MAN keeping c/r CF-PVE.

    11 March 1969

    Civil registration, N27Q, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    31 July 1970


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 1970 photo at Winnipeg - One of a fleet of flying boats operated by Winnipeg based Midwest Airlines, this Grumman Goose was imported from the US in 1969 where it had originally been built for the Navy

    3 October 1972


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: CF-PVE at Winnipeg on 3 October 1972 - Previously operated without titles, this Grumman Goose has here been repainted in the yellow/brown livery after Midwest and Transair merged. Crashed with West Coast Air Service on Vancouver Island, 09Sep74.

    From 1973 to 9 September 1974

    To West Coast Air Services keeping c/r CF-PVE.

    9 September 1974

    Destroyed in a crash.
    At Nitinat Canyon, Mount Cooper, Namaimo BC.
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