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    Airframe Family: Pilatus P-3 / PC-7
    Latest Model:PC-7 Astra
    Construction Number:520
    Last Civil Registration:N520GL
    Compressed ID:Pilatus PC-7 cn 520 cr N520GL
    Latest Owner or Location:Qualitair Llc Trustee, Michelstadt

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    Dates

    Event

    1987

    Constructed as a PC-7.

    To unknown owner with c/r HB-HMB.

    To unknown owner with c/r HB-HDF.

    21 July 1990


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    18 June 1993

    To Gie Avion Ecco, Villeurbanne with new c/r F-GMEB.

    21 April 1999

    To Sa C. J. B./Apache Aviation, Fontaine Les Dijon, Bourgogne Franche Comte keeping c/r F-GMEB.
    Based at Dijon - Darois.

    27 August 2001

    Civil registration, F-GMEB, cancelled.

    By 2001

    To J. W. Van der Flier with new c/r PH-JWF.

    22 December 2005

    To Western Aircraft Inc, Boise, ID with new c/r N520WA.

    23 December 2005

    Certificate of airworthiness for N520WA (PC-7, 520) issued.

    12 September 2006


    Photographer: David Lednicer
    Notes: On display at the Reno Air Races.

    27 June 2007

    Certificate of airworthiness for N520WA (PC-7, 520) issued.

    18 September 2007

    Civil registration, N520WA, cancelled.
    Exported to Netherlands.

    24 September 2007

    To J. W. Van der Flier with new c/r PH-JWF.

    29 October 2013

    To TC Aviation AG, Wolfenschiessen, Switzerland with new c/r HB-HTC.

    3 June 2023

    To Qualitair Llc Trustee, Michelstadt keeping c/r N520GL.

    7 November 2023

    Certificate of airworthiness for N520GL (PC-7, 520) issued.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    DGCA Civil Aircraft Register (France)
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft Confederation Suisse
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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