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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:U-6A Beaver
    Last Military Serial:S-9 KLu
    Construction Number:0965
    Last Civil Registration:PH-DHC
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada U-6A sn S-9 KLu...
    Latest Owner or Location:Royal Netherlands Air Force Historic Flight, Gilze Rijen AB, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an U-6A.

    Circa 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 55-4585.

    21 August 1956

    Delivered by de Havilland Canada and shipped to The Netherlands.

    20 November 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Koninklijke Luchtmacht / Royal Netherlands Air Force with s/n S-9.
    Aircraft arrived in The Netherlands.

    14 December 1956

    Transferred to 336 Squadron, Valkenburg Base, the Netherlands.

    4 September 1974

    Last flight.

    9 September 1974

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Koninklijke Luchtmacht / Royal Netherlands Air Force.
    Struck of charge and used thereafter for public static purposes and put in storage.

    30 June 1988


    Photographer: Joop de Groot
    Notes: 1988 photo taken at Arnhem Deelen, Netherlands. Photo displayed with written permission of Joop de Groot

    From 5 March 1993 to 24 February 1997

    To DSG (Guernsey) Ltd with new c/r G-BUVF.

    1993

    Restoration started.

    24 February 1997

    To Howard Wade Trading as Nostalgic Flying, West Hythe, Hythe keeping c/r G-BUVF.

    Used as support aircraft with the Dutch Spitfire Flight.

    21 May 1998

    To Stichting Koninklijke Luchtmacht Historische Vlucht/Royal Netherlands Air Force Historic Flight, Gilze Rijen AB, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant.

    28 October 1999

    Civil registration, G-BUVF, cancelled.

    21 December 1999

    Assigned civil registration: PH-DHC (DHC DHC-2 Mk.I, 965)

    Based at Royal Netherlands Air Force Historic Flight, Gilze Rijen AB, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant.
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    Markings Applied: S-9

    16 September 2011


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
    Notes: Leeuwarden AB, the Netherlands

    14 June 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: Volkel Air show

    15 June 2013


    Photographer: Hugh Dodson
    Notes: R Netherlands AF Historic Flight U-6A (DHC-2 Mk.I) Beaver PH-DHC/55-4585/S-9 starts up for its display at the 100 Years KLu show on 15 June 2013.

    7 June 2016

    First flight.
    Flown after after deep maintenance.

    14 June 2019


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Volkel, Netherlands
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    Piet Luijken
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