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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-3/U-1/CSR-123 Otter
    Latest Model:DHC-3 Otter
    Last Military Serial:57-6111 US
    Construction Number:230
    Last Civil Registration:CF-CBA
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada DHC-3 sn 57-611...
    Latest Owner or Location:Kenora Air Service Ltd, Kenora, ON

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    Dates

    Event

    1957

    Constructed as an U-1A.

    10 January 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 57-6111 and operated with these markings: 76111.

    By January 1962

    Withdrawn from use.
    In storage at Coleman Barracks, Mannheim, Germany as a maintenance float.

    Circa 1971

    Redesignated as DHC-3.

    29 December 1971

    To Ferrer Aviation Inc, Miami, FL with new c/r N80941 {1}.
    One of 8 DHC-3 Otters purchased at Auction.

    20 June 1972

    Civil registration, N80944, cancelled.

    3 August 1972


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: CF-CBA at Kenora/ON on 3Aug72 -Kenora Air Service had just acquired this ex-US Army Otter here and it was initially painted yellow all over

    1973

    To Parsons Airways, Kenora keeping c/r N80941 {1}.

    To Parsons Airways, Kenora with new c/r CF-CBA.

    22 June 1982

    To Kenora Air Service Ltd, Kenora, ON with new c/r C-FCBA.

    6 July 1999

    To Kenora Air Service Ltd, Kenora, ON with new c/r CF-CBA.

    1 August 2006


    Photographer: John W. Olafson
    Notes: At Kenora

    June 2013

    November 2016

    Sold to unknown individual and put in storage with Recon Air at its Geraldton, Ontario base.
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     DHC-3 Otter Archive by Neil Aird
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Ruud Leeuw.com by Ruud Leeuw
    Transport Canada
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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