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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:Beaver I
    Last Military Serial:KAF-109 KAF
    Construction Number:1585
    Last Civil Registration:ZK-WKA
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Beaver I sn KAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Auckland Seaplanes, Sealink Base North Wharf, Auckland, Auckland, North Island

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    Dates

    Event

    1971

    Constructed as a Beaver I.

    2 November 1979

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Kenyan Air Force with s/n KAF-109.

    23 December 1980

    To Aircraft Operating Co with new c/r N5595A.
    At Lanisera, South Africa.

    October 1982

    To Transport (and) Equipment Eng Co with new c/r ZS-LJL.

    10 July 1989

    To Bowes (and) Cocks, Stoney Lake, ON with new c/r C-GLPL.

    15 February 1994

    To D and M Systems Corp, Wilmington, DE with new c/r N222BS.

    1 March 1994

    Certificate of airworthiness for N222BS (DHC-2, 1585) issued.

    9 December 1996

    To D and M Systems Corp, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N222BS.

    1 January 2001

    Certificate of airworthiness for N222BS (DHC-2, 1585) issued.

    23 February 2015

    To Aircraft Delivery International Llc, Two Harbors, MN keeping c/r N222BS.

    17 March 2015

    Civil registration, N222BS, cancelled.
    Exported to New Zealand.

    17 March 2015

    To unknown owner with c/r N222BS.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Saint Marrys Bay.

    8 July 2015

    To Auckland Seaplanes Limited, Auckland with new c/r ZK-WKA.

    Based at Auckland Seaplanes, Sealink Base North Wharf, Auckland, Auckland, North Island.
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    2016


    Photographer: Tauranga Tandem Skydive
    Notes: At Tauranga, New Zealand

    24 June 2019

    Civil registration, ZK-WKA, cancelled.
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     AMCAR
    Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand
    DHC-2.com by Neil Aird
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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