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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:U-6A Beaver
    Last Military Serial:58-1997 US
    Construction Number:1322
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada U-6A sn 58-1997...
    Latest Owner or Location:U.S. Army Transportation Museum, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Newport News, Virginia

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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 58-1997.

    New construction number, 1877, assigned to the airframe.

    1962

    Redesignated as U-6A.

    To U. S. Army Transportation Museum, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Newport News, VA.
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    15 June 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    22 August 2009


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
    Notes: The all-time classic bush plane also saw wide use in the US Army. She is on display at the United States Transportation Museum, Ft. Eustis, VA.
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