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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-3/U-1/CSR-123 Otter
    Latest Model:NU-1B Otter
    Last Military Serial:142425 USN
    Construction Number:077
    Last Civil Registration:N947RK
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada NU-1B sn 142425...
    Latest Owner or Location:Rainbow King Lodge Inc, Lemoore, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UC-1.

    21 March 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 142425.

    From October 1956 to January 1966

    Transferred to VX-6-McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.

    July 1962

    Redesignated as U-1B.

    From June 1966 to February 1975

    Transferred to Naval Aerospace Recovery Facility, based, El Centro.

    1966

    Converted to a NU-1B.

    From October 1978 to 1 May 1979

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 142425 and stored with the markings: 5U001.

    14 October 1978


    Photographer: Kerry Taylor
    Notes: 142425 de Havilland Canada NU-1B Otter c/n 77 US Navy Davis Monthan, AZ

    1 May 1979

    To Jack Lenhardt, Lenhardt Airpark, Hubbard, OR with new c/r N1037G.

    May 1981

    To 40 Mile Air, Tok, AK keeping c/r N1037G.

    1989

    Involved in an incident.
    Force landed due to engine failure in the Alaskan bush and badly damaged.

    11 May 1995

    To Jimmy Harkey, Auburn, WA with new c/r N129JH (OTTER DHC-3, 77).

    3 March 1998

    Civil registration, N129JH, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    31 December 1998

    To North Star Air Ltd, Pickle Lake, ON with new c/r C-GCQA.

    2016

    To Air Recon Corporation keeping c/r C-GCQA.

    25 August 2016

    To Rainbow King Lodge Inc, Lemoore, CA with new c/r N947RK.

    9 September 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for N947RK (DHC-3, 77) issued.

    17 September 2016


    Photographer: Murray Lundberg
    Notes: Docked at the Whitehorse Water Aerodrome (CEZ5), Yukon, while being ferried to Alaska by pilot Virgil Peachey.

    21 March 2022

    To Rainbow King Lodge Inc, Lemoore, CA keeping c/r N947RK.

    16 April 2024

    Certificate of airworthiness for N947RK (DHC-3, 077) issued.
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    Murray Lundberg
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