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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-114 Heron
    Latest Model:Heron
    Construction Number:14061
    Last Civil Registration:VH-NJI
    Compressed ID:Riley Heron cn 14061 cr VH-NJI
    Latest Owner or Location:Butler Air Transport Museum, Arthur Butler Memorial Airport, Tooraweenah, New South Wales

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Heron 2-Series 1.
    Dehavilland DH-114 MK 2 SERIES I 14061

    To Hayes International Corp, Birmingham, AL with new c/r N484R.

    1955

    To THY, Istanbul, Turkey with new c/r TC-HER.

    1966

    To Aviation Developments with new c/r N484R.

    23 March 1967

    Converted to a Heron by Riley.
    By Hayes Ltd.

    22 August 1968

    To Royalair Ltd with new c/r CF-RAB.

    27 January 1969

    To Bevdale Inc (for lease to Fleet Airlines) with new c/r N138FA.

    10 May 1971

    To Kundert Aviation Inc with new c/r N111KA.

    February 1972

    To Swift Air keeping c/r N111KA.

    1978

    To Fischer Bros (Allegheny) with new c/r N15FB.

    1978

    To Susquehanna keeping c/r N15FB.

    1984


    Photographer: EX/ZX Collection

    1985

    To Fiji Air with new c/r DQ-FED.

    1991

    To Heron Airlines with new c/r VH-NJI.

    4 October 1997


    Photographer: Keld Bonfizz
    Notes: At Hobart Airport, Tasmania

    2007

    Transported by ground.
    Transported from Nowra to Mudgee for storage.

    27 March 2007


    Photographer: Ray Barber
    Notes: VH-NJI De Havilland DH.114 Riley Heron [14061] at the (Fleet Air Arm Museum) Nowra

    24 February 2010

    Transported by ground.
    Transported from Mudgee to Larras Lee for storage.

    Based at Larras Lee Airstrip, Larras Lee, New South Wales.
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    12 December 2012

    To Butler Air Transport Museum, Tooraweenah, NSW keeping c/r VH-NJI.

    29 January 2013

    Transported by ground.
    Transported from Larras Lee to Tooraweenah, NSW for restoration.

    To Butler Air Transport Museum, Arthur Butler Memorial Airport, Tooraweenah, New South Wales.
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    Civil registration, N15FB, cancelled.
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