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DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300
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Series 300

C-GQTM • 9U-BHA • 5N-MPU

C-GPIW

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

• C-GQTM de Havilland Canada Inc., Downsview, Ontario. Rolled out date 11-Jul-1977. First flight 11-Jul-1977.

• 9U-BHA Re regd to de Havilland Canada Inc., Downsview, Ontario, 14-Sep-1977.

• 9U-BHA Delivered to Air Burundi, 23-Sep-1977.

Flew via Shoreham, UK 08/11-Oct-1977 on delivery to Burundi

• 9U-BHA Leased to Virunga Air Charter, Jul-1991.

Note: Aircraft operated for Virunga Air Charter, Goma (Zaïre) when required from 1991 (noted at Goma 04-Jan-1992).

• 5N-MPU Sold to Mobil Oil Nigeria, (Mobil Producing Nigeria Ltd, Lagos, Nigeria). By 2001.

Noted at Altenrhein, Switzerland 15-Nov-2008 in full Mobil colours.

Note: Sold to Gravitas Aviation Ltd., West Vancouver, BC 06-Dc-2019. Remained in Nigeria where it was dismantled for shipping to Calgary, AB by Regent Aircraft Services.

• C-GPIW Ashe Aircraft Enterprises Ltd., (Rocky Mountain Aircraft) Calgary, AB. Regd 13-Feb-2020. Canx 23-Oct-2020

Flew Lagos - Tamanrasset  - Palma de Mallorca – Cardiff, UK – Keflavik between 25-Feb-2020 and  05-May-2020 on its delivery back to Canada.

• C-GPIW 491549 Alberta Ltd., (Rocky Mountain Aircraft ,Calgary, AB (Ashe Aircraft Enterprises Ltd.) Regd 23-Oct-2020.

Flew Springbank, AB YBW - Olds-Didsbury, AB CEA3 -Thompson, MB YTH -YFB Iqaluit - KEF Keflavik 25/26-Aug-2021 - Belgrade LYBE 26/27-Aug-2021 - Hurghada , Egypt HEGN - 28-Aug-2021 Fujairah, UAE OMFJ - 29-Aug-2021 Fujairah, UAE - Male, Maldives VRMM 30-Aug-2021 11:07 MVT.

• 8Q-*** Manta Air, Male, Maldives.

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9U-BHA of AIR BURUNDI, at Shoreham - EGKA, United Kingdom.
Photo: Unknown photographer © 08 October 1977 - Erik Johannesson Collection
C-GPIW at Cardiff - EGFF, Wales.
Photo: Matthew Blunt © 23 February 2020 -Aird Archives
C-GPIW at Calgary - CYYC, Alberta.
Photo: Mike MacKinnon © 18 August 2021 - Aird Archives