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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-3/U-1/CSR-123 Otter
    Latest Model:DHC-3 Otter
    Last Military Serial:FAN-1015 FANic
    Construction Number:307
    Last Civil Registration:N8510T
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada DHC-3 sn FAN-10...
    Latest Owner or Location:Splash Air Llc, Eastsound, WA

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    Dates

    Event

    1958

    Constructed as a DHC-3.

    27 December 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 58-1694.

    By 1975

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea de Nicaragua with s/n FAN-1015.

    10 September 1980

    To Harold J. Hansen. Seattle, WA with new c/r N8510T.

    8 February 1982

    Certificate of airworthiness for N8510T (DHC-3, 307) issued.

    April 1982

    To James J. Harkey, Auburn, WA keeping c/r N8510T.

    May 1984

    To Garry Duff (Turtle Airways Inc), Napa, CA keeping c/r N8510T.

    March 1987

    To Red Baron Leasing Inc, Anchorage, AK keeping c/r N8510T.

    Leased to Sound Adventures Air Service Inc, Lake Hood, Anchorage, AK.

    May 1988

    To Alaska West Guides and Outfitting, Nikiski, AK keeping c/r N8510T.

    30 April 2001

    To Splash Air Llc, Eastsound, WA keeping c/r N8510T.

    13 March 2007

    Civil registration, N8510T, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    30 August 2007

    To Viking Air Limited, Sidney, BC with new c/r C-GITL.

    25 March 2009

    To Viking Air Limited, Sidney, BC keeping c/r C-GITL.

    30 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Visitor to Boeing Field, Seattle

    30 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Visitor to Boeing Field, Seattle

    13 October 2012

    Civil registration, C-GITL, cancelled.

    28 February 2013

    To Splash Air Llc, Eastsound, WA with new c/r N8510T.

    21 March 2013

    Certificate of airworthiness for N8510T (DHC-3, 307) issued.

    2 September 2015


    Photographer: John W. Olafson
    Notes: One of only two Viking Turbo Otter conversions, formerly C-GITL, and now reg to Splash Air. It often flies between Seattle and the San Juan Islands. Here it is seen at Sealand in Campbell River under maintenance
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     DHC-3 Otter Archive by Neil Aird
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Transport Canada
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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