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    Airframe Family: Grumman G-21/JRF/OA-9/OA-13 Goose
    Latest Model:JRF-5 Goose
    Last Military Serial:84806 USN
    Construction Number:B-101
    Last Civil Registration:N345GG
    Compressed ID:Grumman JRF-5 sn 84806 USN cn B-101...
    Latest Owner or Location:3G Classic Aviation Inc, Wilmington, DE

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as a JRF-5.

    November 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 84806.

    5 June 1952

    To H F. Keeler, Seattle, WA with new c/r N62899.

    9 March 1967

    Civil registration, N62899, cancelled.

    7 April 1967

    To Forest Industries Flying Tankers Ltd, Sproat Lake BC with new c/r CF-VFU.

    From 1979 to 2000

    To Forest Industries Flying Tankers Ltd, Sproat Lake BC with new c/r C-FVFU.


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: At Port Alberni/Sproat Lake Air Tanker base

    August 1991


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Sproat Lake, B.C.

    By 2001

    To Klaus Dieter Martin, Munich, Germany keeping c/r C-FVFU.

    Operated by European Seaplane Service, Croatia.

    6 February 2002

    To C-Tec Ltd, Saint John NB: keeping c/r C-FVFU.

    From 2002 to 2006

    Operated by European Coastal Airlines, Croatia.

    From 2005 to 2008

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Borovo Naselje, Vukovar, Vukovar-Syrmia.
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    Circa 2006


    Photographer: Axel Klegien
    Notes: C-FVFU Grumman Goose of defunct European Coastal Air at Osijek/Croatia

    23 October 2015

    To Victoria Air Maintenance Ltd, North Saanich, BC with new c/r C-FMXW.

    3 February 2022

    To 3G Classic Aviation Inc, Wilmington, DE with new c/r N345GG.
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     Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Transport Canada
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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