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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:U-6A Beaver
    Last Military Serial:58-1992 US
    Construction Number:1316
    Last Civil Registration:C-GTBQ
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada U-6A sn 58-1992...
    Latest Owner or Location:Saltspring Air

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-20A-DH.

    Circa 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 58-1992.

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as U-6A.

    3 June 1987

    To William R. Novak, Lost Springs, KS with new c/r N9036 (BEAVER U-6A, 58-1992).

    3 June 1987

    Civil registration, N9036, cancelled.

    22 November 1994

    To Baxter Aviation Ltd, Nanaimo, BC with new c/r C-GTBQ.

    7 May 2006


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At Vancouver South - Fraser River in service for Baxter Aviation

    17 May 2007

    To West Coast Air Ltd, Vancouver, BC keeping c/r C-GTBQ.

    9 May 2008

    Civil registration, C-GTBQ, cancelled.

    19 August 2008

    Civil registration, C-GTBQ, cancelled.

    4 June 2010

    To West Coast Air Ltd, Richmond, BC with new c/r C-GTBQ.

    23 June 2011

    To Harbour Air Ltd, Richmond, BC keeping c/r C-GTBQ.

    Based at Nanaimo Harbour Water Airport, Nanaimo, BC.
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    6 July 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo at Vancouver Int

    Operated by Saltspring Air.

    18 August 2019


    Photographer: John Wolsafson
    Notes: At Vancouver

    24 June 2024


    Photographer: Mick McKean
    Notes: Harbour Air de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Mk 1 Beaver C-GTBQ landing.Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Transport Canada
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
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