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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-3/U-1/CSR-123 Otter
    Latest Model:DHC-3 Otter
    Last Military Serial:55-3273 USAF
    Construction Number:119
    Last Civil Registration:C-FHAD
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada DHC-3 sn 55-327...
    Latest Owner or Location:Coal Harbour, Vancouver, British Columbia

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    Dates

    Event

    1956

    Constructed as a DHC-3.

    19 May 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 55-3273.

    2 August 1974

    To Air Craftsmen Ltd Saint. John, NB with new c/r CF-BEU.

    16 May 1975

    To Laurentian Air Services Ltd, Ottawa, ON keeping c/r CF-BEU.

    24 June 1976

    To Survair Ltd, Ottawa, ON keeping c/r CF-BEU.

    25 July 1979

    To Air Inuit Ltd Fort Chimo, QC with new c/r C-FBEU.

    7 September 1982

    To Air Schefferville (1981) Inc, Schefferville, QC keeping c/r C-FBEU.

    25 November 1982

    To Air Inuit Ltd Kuujjuaq keeping c/r C-FBEU.

    31 May 1984

    To Aeropel Inc, Baie Comeau, QC keeping c/r C-FBEU.

    26 June 1987

    To Labrador Air Safari (1984) Inc keeping c/r C-FBEU.

    17 June 2005

    To Lester L. and Jill G. Bingman, Dillingham, AK with new c/r N81FW.

    12 July 2005

    Certificate of airworthiness for N81FW (DHC-3, 119) issued.

    29 May 2006


    Photographer: John W. Olafson
    Notes: I found this Otter parked at Courtenay, minus prop. It was supposed to be going to Alaska but that fell through. Later it would be obtained by Harbour Air and it now flies as C-FHAD

    7 November 2006

    Civil registration, N81FW, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    1 December 2006

    To Harbour Air Ltd, Richmond, BC with new c/r C-FHAD.

    Operated by Jim Forbes.

    Based at Coal Harbour, Vancouver, BC.
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    4 July 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 Photo at Vancouver Airport

    4 July 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 Photo at Vancouver Airport

    5 July 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 Photo at Vancouver Coal Harbor
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     DHC-3 Otter Archive by Neil Aird
    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Transport Canada
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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