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    Airframe Family: Max Holste MH-250 Super Broussard / Nord N-262
    Latest Model:298 Mohawk
    Construction Number:42
    Last Civil Registration:VH-HIX
    Compressed ID:Frakes Aviation 298 cn 42 cr VH-HIX...
    Latest Owner or Location:Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra, Queensland

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    Dates

    Event

    1967

    Constructed as a N-262A by Nord.

    30 November 1967

    To Nord Aviation with new c/r F-WOFD.

    1 June 1968

    To Nord Aviation with new c/r F-BPNY.

    29 March 1969

    To Air Comores keeping c/r F-BPNY.

    17 August 1971

    To Rousseau Aviation keeping c/r F-BPNY.

    August 1975

    To Ransome Airlines with new c/r N26228.

    12 March 1976

    To Allegheny Airlines with new c/r N29811.

    June 1976

    Converted to a 298 by Frakes Aviation.
    Substitution of two Pratt (and) Whitney Canada PT6A-45 engines in place of the original Turbomeca Bastan engines.

    From June 1979 to July 1985

    Leased to Ransome Airlines.

    July 1985

    To Ransome Airlines keeping c/r N29811.

    March 1987

    To Pan AM Express keeping c/r N29811.

    September 1987

    Civil registration, N29811, cancelled.

    20 September 1987


    Photographer: Danny Tanner
    Notes: At Adelaide International

    30 September 1987

    To Lloyd Aviation, Adelaide with new c/r VH-HIX.

    November 1988

    To Queensland Pacific Airlines keeping c/r VH-HIX.

    1 April 1991

    To Southern Pacific Regional Airlines keeping c/r VH-HIX.

    January 1994

    To Rick Wright, Kangaroo Point, Queensland keeping c/r VH-HIX.

    May 1994

    To Majestic Airways, Albany Creek, Queensland keeping c/r VH-HIX.

    13 November 1995

    Civil registration, VH-HIX, cancelled.

    22 September 1996

    To Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra, Queensland.
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    By 31 January 2009

    Markings Applied: Queensland Pacific

    31 January 2009


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Queensland Air Museum
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     Terry Fletcher
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