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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-6/UV-18/CC-138 Twin Otter
    Latest Model:DHC-6-300 Twin Otter
    Last Military Serial:13806 CAF
    Construction Number:308
    Last Civil Registration:8Q-TAJ
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 sn 13...
    Latest Owner or Location:Trans Maldivian Airways PVT. Ltd

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    Dates

    Event

    1971

    Constructed as a DHC-6-300.

    From 24 September 1971 to August 1994

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Canadian Armed Forces with s/n 13806.

    To unknown owner with c/r C-FTXQ.

    24 December 1994

    To Scott Aircraft Sales, Inver Grove Heights, MN with new c/r N776A.

    17 January 1995

    Civil registration, N776A, cancelled.

    17 January 1995

    To Beau Del Leasing U S Inc, Las Vegas, NV with new c/r C-FTXQ.

    10 February 1995

    Leased to Ptarmigan Airways.

    19 March 1997

    Leased to Bradley Air Services, Carp, ON.

    17 July 2001

    To 171817 Canada Inc (Arctic Sunwest Charters), Yellowknife, NT keeping c/r C-FTXQ.

    11 September 2012

    To 8199400 Canada Inc (Arctic Sunwest Charters), Yellowknife, NT keeping c/r C-FTXQ.

    13 September 2012


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At Yellowknife Seaplane base

    22 May 2013

    To 8199400 Canada Inc (Summit Air), Yellowknife, NT keeping c/r C-FTXQ.

    7 October 2017

    Civil registration, C-FTXQ, cancelled.

    20 June 2018

    To Beau Del Leasing Inc, Calgary, AB with new c/r C-FTXQ.

    30 July 2018

    To Trans Maldivian Airways PVT. Ltd with new c/r 8Q-TAJ.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Transport Canada
    Twin Otter Archive by Neil C. Aird
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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