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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:DHC-2 Beaver
    Construction Number:0146
    Last Civil Registration:VH-AAO
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada DHC-2 cn 0146 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:MacArthur Onslow Richard, Armidale, NSW

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DHC-2.
    DHC-2 146

    10 September 1951

    To Government of Malaya with new c/r VR-HBW.

    March 1952

    To Federation Air Service, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya keeping c/r VR-HBW.

    1 March 1958

    To Malayan Airways, Kallang, Malaya keeping c/r VR-HBW.

    January 1959

    To Malayan Airways, Kallang, Malaya with new c/r 9M-HBW.

    14 July 1960

    To Richard Matthew MacArthur Onslow, Walcha, NSW with new c/r VH-AAO.

    8 May 1961

    To Aerial Agriculture Pty., Bankstown, NSW keeping c/r VH-AAO.

    20 October 1977

    To Richard MacArthur Onslow, Walcha, NSW keeping c/r VH-AAO.

    13 December 1982

    Withdrawn from use.

    15 February 1984


    Photographer: Danny Tanner
    Notes: At Adelaide Parafield

    7 December 2005

    To Richard MacArthur Onslow, Walcha, NSW with new c/r VH-AAO.

    7 December 2005

    To MacArthur Onslow Richard, Armidale, NSW with new c/r VH-AAO.

    24 June 2018


    Photographer: Ian McDonell
    Notes: At Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
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    DHC-2.com by Neil Aird
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     Terry Fletcher
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