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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-3/U-1/CSR-123 Otter
    Latest Model:DHC-3 Otter
    Last Military Serial:3662 RCAF
    Construction Number:008
    Last Civil Registration:N92858
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada DHC-3 sn 3662 R...
    Latest Owner or Location:Blue Aircraft Llc, Ketchikan, AK

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a DHC-3.

    28 March 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 3662.

    7 February 1966

    To Coast Range Airways, Atlin, BC with new c/r CF-SUB.

    17 July 1968

    To Great Northern Airways Ltd, Calgary, ON keeping c/r CF-SUB.

    December 1970

    To International Jet Air Ltd, Calgary, AB keeping c/r CF-SUB.

    4 May 1972

    To Trans North Turbo Air Ltd with new c/r C-FSUB.

    23 April 1979

    To Tyee Airways Ltd, Sechelt, BC keeping c/r C-FSUB.

    12 June 1980

    To Air North Charter and Training Ltd, Whitehorse, YT keeping c/r C-FSUB.

    4 October 1984

    To Harbour Air, Vancouver, BC keeping c/r C-FSUB.

    1986

    To North Coast Air Services Ltd, Prince Rupert, BC keeping c/r C-FSUB.

    8 April 1997

    To Cargair Ltee, Saint-Hubert, QC keeping c/r C-FSUB.

    5 April 2007

    To Air Mont-Laurier (1985) Inc, Riviere-Rouge, QC keeping c/r C-FSUB.

    Circa 2017


    Photographer: John W. Olafson
    Notes: Otter C-FSUB is one of the oldest Otters still flying and also one of the few remaining with the original R1340 radial engine. It arrived in Vernon from Geraldton Ontario and it likely has a new owner and career ahead of it. The Otter will be going to Campbell River for a turbine conversion

    5 December 2017

    To William J Alder, Merville, BC with new c/r C-FSUB.

    8 February 2018

    To Blue Aircraft Llc, Ketchikan, AK with new c/r N38BA.

    17 July 2019

    To Blue Aircraft Llc, Ketchikan, AK with new c/r N92858.

    15 August 2019

    Certificate of airworthiness for N92858 (DHC-3, 8) issued.
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     DHC-3 Otter Archive by Neil Aird
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Transport Canada
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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