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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-3/U-1/CSR-123 Otter
    Latest Model:DHC-3 Otter
    Last Military Serial:5330 RNoAF
    Construction Number:030
    Last Civil Registration:N63354
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada DHC-3 sn 5330 R...
    Latest Owner or Location:Ward Air

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DHC-3.

    From 8 April 1954 to 30 May 1967

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Norwegian Air Force with s/n 5330.

    By 1968

    To Varangfly A/S with new c/r LN-IKI.

    4 July 1975

    To Norving A/S keeping c/r LN-IKI.

    July 1982

    To Transit Air keeping c/r LN-IKI.

    4 July 1983

    To Norronafly A/S keeping c/r LN-IKI.

    March 1984

    To Dodson Aviation Inc, Ottawa, KS with new c/r N4683K.

    September 1986

    To Newcal Aviation Inc, Little Ferry, NJ keeping c/r N4683K.

    July 1988

    To Eugene Q. Weiler, Anchorage, AK keeping c/r N4683K.

    20 July 1993

    To Wagair of Bella Bella, BC with new c/r C-FWAF.

    18 April 1996

    Certificate of airworthiness for N63354 (OTTER DHC-3, 30) issued.

    26 April 1996

    To Edward K. Kiesel, trading as Ward Air, based, Juneau, AK with new c/r N63354.

    26 February 2003

    To Red Leasing Llc, Juneau, AK keeping c/r N63354.

    7 April 2007


    Photographer: John W. Olafson
    Notes: A Ward Air Piston engine Otter came to Vernon for conversion to the Texas Turbines Super Otter and left Vernon a couple of months later for Juneau, Alaska

    Based at Juneau International Airport, Juneau, AK.
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    1 January 2018

    Certificate of airworthiness for N63354 (OTTER DHC-3, 30) issued.

    19 June 2019

    To Red Leasing Llc, Juneau, AK keeping c/r N63354.

    Operated by Ward Air.

    2020


    Photographer: Ed Kiesel.
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