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DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300
9N-AET
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Series 300

A2-ABL • 7P-LAG • ET-AIW • C-GBQA • (9N-AEM)

9N-AET
• Registration • Activity and details of Owner/Operator and other historical information

• A2-ABL de Havilland Canada Inc., Downsview, ON. Rolled out date 05-Apr-1979. First flight 21-Apr-1979.

• A2-ABL Delivered to Air Botswana, "Shashe", 02-May-1979.

Delivered via Reykjavik, Iceland – Shannon, Ireland – Rabat, Morocco 13/14-May-1979.

• 7P-LAG Sold to Lesotho Airways, Maseru, Lesotho. Dec-1983.

Accident. Quthing, Lesotho 02-Apr-1984 Aircraft struck a tree approximately 200m from the runway threshold on landing at. While the aircraft remained controllable and landed safely, there was significant damage to the right wing. Repairable & returned to Service.

• ET-AIW Sold to RRC (Rehabilitation & Relief Commission) Air Seriesvice, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Regd 19-Sep-1985.

• ET-AIW Sold to Jetstream Aircraft Sales, Jacksonville, FL 18-Nov-1997.

Flew Addis Ababa - Asmara, Eritrea - Luxor, Egypt - Heraklion, Greece - Rome-Ciampino, Italy - Pisa, Italy - Birmingham, UK - Prestwick UK - Reykjavik, Iceland - Kangerlussuaq, Greenland - Iqaluit, NU - Churchill, MB - Calgary, AB as C-GBQA (although not officially registered as such - see below).

• C-GBQA Sold Borek & Binder Aero Leasing, Calgary, AB [751209 Alberta Ltd., Calgary, AB], 26-Nov-1997. Regd 16-Dec-1997.

Note: Rolled out at Calgary, AB 12-May-1998 in Garud Air c/s & repainted as 9N-AEM 26-May-1998.

• (9N-AEM) Sold to Garud Air, Kathmandu, Nepal.13-May-1998 but NTU.

• 9N-AET Sold to Lumbini Airways, Kathmandu, Nepal. 24-Jul-1998.

Flew via Birmingham, UK 22-Aug-1998 on delivery to Nepal.

• 9N-AET Sold to Yeti Airways, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1999.

• 9N-AET Tara Air, Kathmandu, Nepal. Transferred Apr-2010.\

Accident: 29-May-2022 - Reported missing on a domestic flight from Pokhara to Jomsom, Nepal. On board are 16 passengers and three crew members.
Search operations are being conducted.The flight took off from runway 04 at Pokhara Airport at 09:55 local time (04:10 UTC). The last datapoint received by flight tracking website Flightradar24 was at 10:07 at about 13,000 feet. The plane was carrying 13 Nepalis, four Indians, two Germans and three crew members.

• Unknown •

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A2-ABL "SHASHE" of air botswana, at Johannesburg, RSA.
Photo: Unknown photographer © Date unknown - Erik Johannesson Collection
7P-LAG looking rather plain.
Photo: Unknown photographer © c. early 1984 - John Mounce Collection - Aird Archives
ET-AIW at Addis Ababa / Bole - HAAB, Ethiopia.
Photo: C. Witt © January 1993 - John Mounce Collection - Aird Archives
Photo: C. Witt © January 1993 - Erik Johannesson Collection
9N-AET of Lumbini Airways, at Calgary - CYYC, Alberta.
Photo: Unknown photographer © July 1998 - Erik Johannesson Collection
9N-AET at Lukla - VNLK, Nepal.
Photo: Romano Germann © Date unknown - Erik Johannesson Collection
9N-AET at Kathmandu - VNKT, Nepal.
Photo: John Rodger © 25 January 2005 - John Mounce Collection - Aird Archives