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    Airframe Family: Grumman S2F/S-2/C-121 Tracker / TF/C-1 Trader / WF/E-1 Tracer
    Latest Model:Firecat
    Last Military Serial:1538 RCN
    Construction Number:DHC-037
    Last Civil Registration:C-GWHK
    Compressed ID:Conair Firecat sn 1538 RCN cn DHC-0...
    Latest Owner or Location:Abbotsford International Airport (East Side), Abbotsford, British Columbia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a CS2F-1 by de Havilland Canada at Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Navy with s/n 1538.

    12 November 1970

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Canadian Navy.

    From September 1977 to By 1981

    To Field Aviation Co Ltd, Calgary, AB with new c/r C-GWHK.

    1977

    Converted to a tanker by Field Aviation.

    April 1984

    Converted to a Firecat by Conair.
    New construction number, 16, assigned to the airframe.

    Operated as fire service #2.

    From 13 April 1984 to By 2007

    To Province of Saskatchewan, La Ronge, SK.

    Operated as fire service #2.

    8 October 1997

    To Province of Saskatchewan, La Ronge, SK keeping c/r C-GWHK.

    By 2007

    Withdrawn from use at La Ronge, SK, and placed up for sale.

    8 May 2007

    To Conair Group Inc (Conair Aviation), Abbotsford, BC keeping c/r C-GWHK.

    29 May 2007

    Assigned civil registration: C-GWHK (CONAIR FIRECAT, 16)

    29 May 2007

    To Conair Group Inc, Abbotsford, BC keeping c/r C-GWHK.

    6 August 2007

    Civil registration, C-GWHK, cancelled.

    One source indicates this airframe may have been dissassembled for spare parts.

    3 July 2012

    Based at Abbotsford International Airport (East Side), Abbotsford, BC.
    Spotted stored here.
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    3 July 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: On east side of Abbotsford Airport BC
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Transport Canada
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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