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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:U-6A Beaver
    Last Military Serial:53-7888 US
    Construction Number:0696
    Last Civil Registration:C-FUVQ
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada U-6A sn 53-7888...
    Latest Owner or Location:JDR Pacific Ventures Ltd (Sunshine Coast Air), Sechelt, BC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-20A-DH.

    21 September 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 53-7888.

    New construction number, 1429, assigned to the airframe.

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as U-6A.

    7 March 1972

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number HS128.

    July 1975

    To Kirtland Community College, Roscommon, MI with new c/r N67130.

    August 1989

    To Murray D. Michael, Potomac, MD with new c/r N34M.

    Markings Applied: 53-37888, MM
    Painted in South Vietnamese Air Force markings.

    30 July 1991


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Oshkosh, WI

    23 August 1991

    Civil registration, N34M, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    23 August 1991

    To unknown owner with c/r N34M.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Blaine, WA.

    26 August 1991

    To Thomas P. Rogers, White Rock, BC with new c/r C-FUVQ.

    6 June 2003

    To Vancouver Island Air Ltd, Campbell River, BC keeping c/r C-FUVQ.

    26 September 2009


    Photographer: John W. Olafson
    Notes: Back in the day when it flew for Vancouver Island Air out of Campbell River.

    30 June 2010

    Civil registration, C-FUVQ, cancelled.

    26 July 2010

    To Pacific Coastal Airlines Ltd, Richmond, BC with new c/r C-FUVQ.

    17 September 2012


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At Port McNeill Seaplane base

    19 December 2014


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 2014 at Victoria BC. - though based at Port Hardy, this Pacific Coastal DHC-2 is being dollied from the Pat Bay seaplane base for maintenance here. Livery is still basic Vancouver Island Air with whom is served until 2010.

    24 February 2015

    Civil registration, C-FUVQ, cancelled.

    4 August 2015

    To JDR Pacific Ventures Ltd (Sunshine Coast Air), Sechelt, BC with new c/r C-FUVQ.

    21 August 2018


    Photographer: John W. Olafson
    Notes: On the Fraser River, Vancouver
    Credits
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    Internet Sources
     DHC-2.com by Neil Aird
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Transport Canada
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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