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    Airframe Family: Noorduyn Norseman
    Latest Model:JA-1 Norseman
    Last Military Serial:57993 USN
    Construction Number:398
    Last Civil Registration:CF-HAU
    Compressed ID:Noorduyn JA-1 sn 57993 USN cn 398 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Northland Aircraft Service, Ignace Municipal Airport, Ignace, Ontario

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as an UC-64A.

    29 March 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-7207.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 57993 as a JA-1.
    Used to support Antarctic expeditions.

    To Sweezy and Kahler, Alameda, CA with new c/r NC36559.

    To unknown owner with c/r NC4702V.

    9 July 1953

    To Mont Laurier Aviation Co., QC with new c/r CF-HAU.

    28 July 1954

    To Boreal Airways Ltd, Saint. Felicien, QC keeping c/r CF-HAU.

    1958

    To Nordair Ltd keeping c/r CF-HAU.


    Photographer: Alexandre Bigey Collection

    1961

    To Wheeler Airlines, Saint. Jovite, QC keeping c/r CF-HAU.

    1979

    Crashed.
    The aircraft cart-wheeled on takeoff and came to rest inverted.

    14 May 1979

    To Brochu Industries, Montreal, QC keeping c/r CF-HAU.

    28 July 1986

    Civil registration, CF-HAU, cancelled.

    2017

    What remains of the airframe sits just southwest of the Ignace airport on Osaquan lake in Ontario with Northland Aircraft Service owned by Gord and Eleanor Hughes.

    Based at Northland Aircraft Service, Ignace Municipal Airport, Ignace, ON.
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