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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-6/UV-18/CC-138 Twin Otter
    Latest Model:DHC-6-300 Twin Otter
    Construction Number:788
    Last Civil Registration:N56RF
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 cn 78...
    Latest Owner or Location:United States Department of Commerce, Lakeland, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    1982

    Constructed as a DHC-6-300.
    DEHAVILLAND DHC-6-300 788

    15 July 1982

    To de Havilland Aircraft with new c/r C-GBOD.

    From 28 September 1982 to Circa 2005

    To Government of Senegal, Dakar with new c/r 6V-AFF.

    2005


    Photographer: Andrew William Breeden
    Notes: Luxembourg

    15 February 2007

    To Ashe Aircraft Enterprises Ltd (Rocky Mountain Aircraft), Calgary, AB with new c/r C-FMRU.

    20 April 2007

    Civil registration, C-FMRU, cancelled.

    3 May 2007

    To United States Department of Commerce, MacDill AFB, FL with new c/r N56RF.

    21 May 2007

    Certificate of airworthiness for N56RF (DHC-6-300, 788) issued.

    13 April 2011

    To United States Department of Commerce, Macdill AFB, FL keeping c/r N56RF.

    18 November 2019

    To United States Department of Commerce, Lakeland, FL keeping c/r N56RF.

    April 2021


    Photographer: Dustin Madden
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     Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Transport Canada
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     Terry Fletcher
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