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    Airframe Family: Noorduyn Norseman
    Latest Model:UC-64A-ND Norseman
    Last Military Serial:43-35432 USAAF
    Construction Number:506
    Last Civil Registration:CF-BHU {2}
    Compressed ID:Noorduyn UC-64A-ND sn 43-35432 USAA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Kississing Lake Lodge Ltd (wings Over Kississing), Steinbach, MB

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as an UC-64A-ND by Noorduyn at Montreal, QC, Canada.

    1 June 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-35432.

    1 June 1944

    Transferred to Air Transport Command.

    April 1946

    Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
    For disposal as surplus.

    To Chas Carpenter, Burbank, CA with new c/r N13340.
    Acquired as surplus.

    From 1949 to 1955

    To U. S. Forest Service, Boise, ID keeping c/r N13340.

    1956

    To Reeder Flying Service, Twin Falls, ID keeping c/r N13340.

    1960

    To Parachutes Incorporated keeping c/r N13340.

    Ferry flight.
    Flown to Orange by Nate Pond, N13340 was the first Norseman purchased by PI and was the first Norseman to wear a corporate color.

    It was used at Hemet, California, when that center opened, then worked the 1962 World Meet and then the Orange DZ.

    Circa December 1963

    Went in for a major overhaul in late 1963.

    Circa April 1964

    Ferry flight.
    Flown to Lakewood in Spring 1964 and worked the summer there with Red Lead while N1207 was in for her overhaul.

    Circa September 1964

    She returned to Orange in the fall and worked there with a few trips here and there to substitute for other Norseman needing shop work.


    Photographer: Ron Anusiewicz
    Notes: At Orange Municipal, MA

    October 1988


    Photographer: Mark Kennedy
    Notes: UC-64 Norseman, c/n 506, (Lone Star Flight Museum) at Wings over Houston, Oct 1988

    28 April 1997

    To Historic Transportation Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N13340.

    20 April 2000

    Civil registration, N13340, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    27 April 2001

    To Grass River Lodge Ltd, Flin Flon, MB with new c/r CF-BHU {2}.

    7 May 2006

    Civil registration, CF-BHU {2}, cancelled.

    7 May 2006

    To Grass River Lodge Ltd, Flin Flon, MB with new c/r CF-BHU {2} (UC-64A, 506).
    Last CR action date noted here.

    19 May 2020

    To Kississing Lake Lodge Ltd (wings Over Kississing), Steinbach, MB keeping c/r CF-BHU {2}.


    Photographer: Rodney Kozar
    Notes: based at Channing Waterdrome, Flin Flon, Manitoba.

    September 2021


    Photographer: Ron Kostuik
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