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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:L-20A-DH Beaver
    Construction Number:0724
    Last Civil Registration:N54LA
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada L-20A-DH cn 072...
    Latest Owner or Location:Kenneth H. Loken, Juneau, AK

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    Dates

    Event

    1 January 1954

    Constructed as a L-20A-DH.
    Dehavilland DHC-2 MK. I(L20A) 724

    To unknown owner with c/r N54LA.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma City, OK.

    To unknown owner with c/r C-GAEE.

    1983


    Photographer: Diane S. Smith
    Notes: In downtown Atlin, BC, for the shooting of the movie Never Cry Wolf.

    19 June 1985


    Photographer: Murray Lundberg
    Notes: At Atlin, BC

    26 September 1986

    Category A Crash.
    Nosed over while landing on Dease Lake, and all 5 passengers were killed. Pilot Theresa Bond survived.

    30 March 1987

    Civil registration, C-GAEE, cancelled.

    6 July 1995

    Certificate of airworthiness for N54LA (DHC-2 MK. I(L20A), 724) issued.

    7 July 1995

    To Kenneth H. Loken and Craig J. Loken, Juneau, AK with new c/r N754LA.

    7 July 1995

    To Kenneth H. Loken, Juneau, AK with new c/r N54LA.

    16 July 1996

    Destroyed in a crash.
    15 sm from Elfin Cove, N58.01.28 W136.06.20, 1 killed.

    By 19 July 1996

    To Lynden Air Cargo with new c/r N54LA.

    19 July 1996

    Crashed.
    There was one fatality. The accident occurred at Elfin Cove, AK, United States while cruising. The airframe was destroyed. The pilot of the air taxi cargo flight departed his base of operations in Juneau, Alaska for a series of flights in southeast Alaska that would ultimately return him to Juneau. On the accident leg of the intended round robin, the pilot was en route from Hoonah to Elfin Cove...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    15 July 1998

    To Kenneth H. Loken, Juneau, AK with new c/r N54LA.

    1 January 2006

    Certificate of airworthiness for N54LA (DHC-2 MK. I(L20A), 724) issued.

    27 August 2009

    To unknown owner with c/r N54LA.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma City, OK.

    22 April 2013

    Civil registration, N54LA, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma City, OK.
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    DHC-2.com by Neil Aird
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Transportation Safety Board
    Individual Contributors
     Murray Lundberg
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