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DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300
PJ-WIX
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Series 300

CF-WAA • C-FWAA • N5584H • C-FWAA • ST-AHT • C-GHTO • HB-LTR • PK-BRN • C-GKVV

PJ-WIX

• Registration • Activity and details of Owner/Operator and other historical information

• CF-WAA de Havilland Canada Inc., Downsview, ON. Rolled out date 16-Apr-1969. First flight 23-May1969.

• CF-WAA Wardair, Edmonton, AB. Delivered 30-May-1969.

• CF-WAA Leased to Laurentian Air Services, Ottawa, ON. Regd 15-Feb-1976.

• CF-WAA Returned to Wardair, Edmonton, AB. 31-Dec-1976.

• CF-WAA Sold to Bannock Aerospace, Toronto, ON. Regd 21-Dec-1979.

Note: For lease to UNICEF Sudan under Canadian registry & Swiss crew; permission denied due to Canadian regulations.

• N5584H Reported as transferred to Bannock Aerospace, Wilmington, DE. Regd 27-Feb-1980. Poss N55946.

Note: For lease to UNICEF Sudan under U.S. registry & Swiss crew; permission denied due to U.S. regulations.

• C-FWAA Transferred to Bannock Aerospace, Toronto, ON. Regd 08-Mar-1980.

• C-FWAA Leased to UNICEF-United Nations Children's Emergency Fund, Khartoum, Sudan.

Flew: Via Prestwick, UK - Cannes, France 29-Mar-1980 on delivery to Sudan.

• ST-AHT Re regdistered to UNICEF United Nations Children's Emergency Fund, Khatoum, Sudan. Regd 09-Apr-1980.

Returned to Canada May-1981 to Oct-1981 presumably for maintenance.

Arrived Geneva, Switzerland 18-Nov-2000 in full UNICEF c/s, prior to sale.

• C-GHTO Leased to Benavia Special Air operations., Geneva, Switzerland. Regd Jan-2001.

Flew Geneva, Switzerland - Eindhoven, Netherlands 21-Feb-2001 for painting; return to Geneva 01-Mar-2001.

• C-GHTO Returned to North Cariboo Flying Service, Fort St John, BC. Regd 17-Jan-2004. Canx 22-Jun-2004.

Flew Altenrhein, Switzerland - Wick, UK - Reykjavík, Iceland - Iqaluit, NU - Fort St. John, BC 05/17-Jan-2005

• C-GHTO Leased to Kenn Borek Air, Calgary, AB. Regd 22-Jun-2004. Canx 05-Jul-2005.

• C-GHTO Returned to North Cariboo Flying Service, Fort St John, BC. Regd 18-Aug-2005, Canx 24-Jan-2006 on export to Switzerland.

Flew Fort St. John, BC - Iqaluit, NU - Reykjavík, Iceland - Wick, UK - Altenrhein, Switzerland 07/11-Jan-2006

• HB-LTR Zimex Business Aviation AG. Operated by Zimex Aviation Ltd., Altenrhein, Switzerland. Regd 24-Jan-2006. Canx 25-Apr-2014. Leased in Indonesia.

Flew 20-Apr-2014 Malé, Maldives - Singapore-Seletar.  21-Apr-2014 Singapore-Seletar-Jakarta-Halim, Indonesia

• PK-BRN PT Aviastar Mandiri, Jakarta, Indonesia. Regd 20-Apr-2014.

Noted: Fuselage left Airdrie, AB., on 07-Sep-2022 by road.

• C-GKVV Unity Group Ltd., Airdrie, AB. Regd 27-Sep-2022.

• C-GKVV Winair Windward Island Airways, Sint Maarten. On lease 01-Jun-2023. Canadian reg canx 08-Jun-2023.

Flew 01-Jun-2023 Left Airdrie, AB - Lethbridge, AB - Cut Bank, MT, Glasgow, MT - Scottsbluff, NE - Wichita, KS - Memphis,

TN - Talahassee, FL - Fort Lauderdale-Exec., FL - Providenciales 01/05-Jun-2023

• PJ-WIX Winair Windward Island Airways, Sint Maarten. Regd 08-Jun-2023.

Current

CF-WAA for wardair at CYZD - Downsview.
Photo: Sheldon D. Benner © June 1969 Michael J. Ody Collection
N5584H very hard to read registration marking, at Toronto - CYYZ.
Photo: Sheldon D. Benner © March 1980 - Michael J. Ody Collection
C-FWAA at Toronto - CYYZ, with registration blanked out.
Photo: Unknown photographer © March 1980 Michael J. Ody Collection
ST-AHT in interim markings at Toronto - CYYZ.
Photo: Unknown photographer © 07 May 1981 Michael J. Ody Collection
ST-AHT in full UNICEF markings at Toronto - CYYZ.
Photo: Unknown photographer © 17 October 1981 - Michael J. Ody Collection
ST-AHT unicef, showing UN "un"derwing markings.
Photo: "Un"known photographer © date unknown - Michael J. Ody Collection
ST-AHT at Zurich - LSZH, Switzerland.
Photo: Unknown photographer © July 1989 - Michael J. Ody Collection
HB-LTR in a misty Switzerland.
Photo: Unknown photographer © October 2009 Michael J. Ody Collection
HB-LTR ready for a flight.
Photo: Erich Kuntz © Date unknown
HB-LTR at Male - VRMM, Maldive Islands.
Photo: Oliver Ossman © 20 April 2014
PK-BRN leaves Airdrie, Alberta.
Photo: Trevor McTavish © 07 September 2022 - Aird Archives
C-GKVV with enthusiastic crew at Airdrie, Alberta.
Photo: Unity Aircraft / Winair © 01 June 2023 - Aird Archives
C-GKVV the future PJ-WIX.
Photo: Unity Aircraft / Winair © 01 June 2023 - Aird Archives