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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-2/L-20/U-6 Beaver
    Latest Model:Beaver I
    Construction Number:1517
    Last Civil Registration:N715
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Beaver I cn 151...
    Latest Owner or Location:Tressler Kevin, Bethel, AK

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1963

    Constructed as a Beaver I.
    Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1 1517

    24 July 1963

    To Bureau of Sport Fisheries (and) Wildlife, Anchorage, AK with new c/r N715.

    6 February 1964

    Certificate of airworthiness for N715 (BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1, 1517) issued.

    To A. C. Northern keeping c/r N715.

    February 1979

    To Robert G. Shelton Trustee, Anchorage, AK keeping c/r N715.

    13 October 1987

    To Arctic Bee Construction Inc, Anchorage, AK keeping c/r N715.

    1 January 2006

    Certificate of airworthiness for N715 (BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1, 1517) issued.

    1 November 2017

    To McKenna Brothers Aircraft Llc, Anchorage, AK keeping c/r N715.

    19 April 2018

    To William E. Starr, Eagle River, AK keeping c/r N715.

    June 2019


    Photographer: JoeJoe Prince

    22 February 2023

    To Tressler Kevin, Bethel, AK keeping c/r N715.
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