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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:Beaver I
    Last Military Serial:53-7931 US
    Construction Number:0743
    Last Civil Registration:C-GWEY
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Beaver I sn 53-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Rennie Equipment Inc, Lumby, BC

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1954

    Constructed as a Beaver I.
    Dehavilland DHC-2 MK. I 743

    21 December 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 53-7931.

    1 April 1973

    To B-M Aviation Ltd, Lachute, QC with new c/r C-GWEY.

    1978

    To W. K. K. Aviation Ltd, Saint-Laurent, QC keeping c/r C-GWEY.

    By 1981

    To Wahlensbergs Ltd, Ilford, MB keeping c/r C-GWEY.

    28 July 1983

    To Saari Contracting Ltd, Chapleau, ON keeping c/r C-GWEY.

    23 November 1999

    To Gearys Sportsmans Lodge Ltd, Red Lake, ON keeping c/r C-GWEY.

    28 July 2011


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: De Havilland DHC-2 Beaver Mk.1 operating for Gearrys Sportsmans Lodge - at Balmertown SPB, ON

    5 October 2017

    To Rennie Equipment Inc, Lumby, BC keeping c/r C-GWEY.

    23 October 2019


    Photographer: John W. Olafson
    Notes: A nice day for Beaver watching in Vernon as C-GWEY was doing circuits on a glorious autumn day. WEY has moved West from Ontario and was given a stunning new paint scheme. And it still retains its original porthole window,
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