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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:U-6A Beaver
    Last Military Serial:52-6117 US
    Construction Number:0498
    Last Civil Registration:N772AE
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada U-6A sn 52-6117...
    Latest Owner or Location:Rainbow Bay Resorts Llc, Pedro Bay, AK

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an U-6A.

    8 June 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-6117.

    13 April 1966

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 52-6117.

    May 1971

    To Civil Air Patrol. Maxwell AFB., AL with new c/r N5155G.

    From 1986 to 1990

    To unknown owner with c/r N910BW.

    From 1990 to 1 January 1992

    Restored.
    At Campbell River by Jeff Denny.

    From 4 June 1992 to 24 January 2005

    To Jacknife Associates Inc, Anchorage, AK with new c/r N104RL.

    16 June 1999

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR772AE (BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1, 498) issued.

    By November 2004

    To Lake Hood, Anchorage, AK.
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    25 January 2005

    To GCI Communication Corp., Anchorage, AK keeping c/r N104RL.

    4 May 2005

    To unknown owner with c/r N104RL.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Pedro Bay, AK.

    24 May 2005

    To Rainbow Bay Resort, Pedro Bay, AK keeping c/r N104RL.

    21 April 2009

    To Tanada Lake Lodge, Grand Junction, CO keeping c/r N104RL.

    21 April 2009

    To Tanada Lake Lodge, Grand Junction, CO with new c/r N152RF.

    10 June 2010


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Lake Hood, Anchorage

    23 July 2011

    To unknown owner with c/r N152RF.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Grand Junction, CO.

    10 September 2011

    To Roger L. Fischer DBA, Grand Junction, CO keeping c/r N152RF.

    1 January 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR104RL (BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1, 498) issued.

    1 January 2016

    To unknown owner with c/r N104RL.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Pedro Bay, AK.

    2 March 2016

    To Rainbow Bay Resorts Llc, Pedro Bay, AK keeping c/r N152RF.

    2 March 2016

    To Rainbow Bay Resorts Llc, Pedro Bay, AK with new c/r N772AE.

    2018


    Photographer: Joe Joe Prince
    Notes: At Lake Hood, Anchorage, Alaska

    3 December 2022

    Civil registration, N772AE, cancelled.

    26 April 2023

    To Rainbow Bay Resorts Llc, Pedro Bay, AK with new c/r N772AE.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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