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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-6/UV-18/CC-138 Twin Otter
    Latest Model:DHC-6-1 Twin Otter
    Construction Number:099
    Last Civil Registration:C-GPVQ
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada DHC-6-1 cn 099...
    Latest Owner or Location:Osprey Wings Ltd, La Ronge, SK

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    Dates

    Event

    1968

    Constructed as a DHC-6-1.
    DEHAVILLAND DHC-6-100 99

    23 March 1968

    To Transport Aerien with new c/r CF-QBU.

    25 February 1969

    To Quebecair, Montreal keeping c/r CF-QBU.

    5 December 1970


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: CF-QBU at Winnipeg on 5Dec70 - The 99th production Twin Otter recently sold by Quebecair to Northward Aviation in Edmonton and here on delivery ferry. Since then it has been around the block several times, including a spell in the Maldives as 8Q-QBU.

    15 December 1970

    To Northward Airlines, Edmonton keeping c/r CF-QBU.

    26 September 1975

    To Gateway Aviation, Edmonton with new c/r C-FQBU.

    15 November 1978

    To Norcanair keeping c/r C-FQBU.

    November 1995

    To Maldives Air Taxi with new c/r 8Q-QBU.

    4 August 1998


    Photographer: Bob Holland
    Notes: At Springbank, Alberta

    29 October 2009

    Civil registration, 8Q-QBU, cancelled.

    29 October 2009

    To Kenn Borek Air, Calgary with new c/r C-GSKB.

    23 June 2010

    To Ashe Aircraft Enterprises Ltd (rocky Mountain Aircraft), Calgary, AB keeping c/r C-GSKB.

    26 May 2011

    To Alberta Aircraft Leasing Inc, Las Vegas, NV with new c/r N990KD.

    24 June 2011

    Certificate of airworthiness for N990KD (DHC-6-100, 99) issued.

    24 October 2011

    To Flanagan Enterprises (Nevada) Inc, Zephyr Cove, NV keeping c/r N990KD.

    18 April 2012

    Civil registration, N990KD, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    30 April 2012

    To Ashe Aircraft Enterprises Ltd (rocky Mountain Aircraft), Calgary, AB with new c/r C-GPVQ.

    15 May 2012

    To Osprey Wings Ltd, La Ronge, SK with new c/r C-GPVQ.
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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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