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    Airframe Family: Bell 204/205/208/208/212/214/412/553 / UH-1 Iroquois
    Latest Model:CH-135 Twin Huey
    Last Military Serial:ARC224 FAC
    Construction Number:32044
    Last Civil Registration:N9163M
    Compressed ID:Bell CH-135 sn ARC224 FAC cn 32044...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fuerza Aerea Colombiana

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a CH-135.

    11 January 1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Canadian Armed Forces with s/n 135144.

    15 September 1987


    Photographer: Friedrich Becker
    Notes: At Goose Bay

    29 June 1988


    Photographer: Friedrich Becker
    Notes: At Goose Bay

    To US Department of State Inl/A, Patrick AFB, FL with new c/r N9163M.

    9 April 2009

    Civil registration, N9163M, cancelled.
    Exported to Colombia.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Ejercito Nacional de Colombia with s/n EJC-201 and operated with these markings: CN-13.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea Colombiana with s/n ARC224.
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