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Series 300

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N178GC

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

• PH-SSE de Havilland Canada Inc., Downsview, ON. Rolled out date 06-Jun-1980. First flight 06-Jun-1980.

• PH-SSE Delivered to Schreiner Airways, Maastricht, Netherlands, 02-Jul-1980.

• 7P-LAM Leased to Lesotho Airways, Maseru, Lesotho, 25-Aug-1986.

Noted at Johannesburg 20-Nov-1987. All white possibly for sale but see below.

Accident: Nkau, Lesotho 27-Nov-1988. Crashed on landing. One crew and fourteen passengers survived; aircraft repaired. No other details.

• N226SA(1) Sold to World Jet Aircraft International, Ft Lauderdale, FL., 1992.

• N226SA(1) Sold to JAS Aviation. 1992.

• N226SA(1) Sold to Scenic Airlines, Las Vegas, NV.. 01-May-1992.

• N178GC Sold to Twin Otter International, Las Vegas, NV., 1993.

• N178GC Sold to Grand Canyon A/L, Grand Canyon, AZ., 01-Oct-1993 Regd 03-Feb-1994.

• TI-AZD Leased to Natureair, Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica, 19-Dec-2002.

• N178GC Returned to Grand Canyon Airlines, Grand Canyon, AZ., Jan-2003.

• TI-AZD Leased to Natureair, San Jose, Costa Rica, 08-Jan-2003.

• N178GC Returned to Grand Canyon Airlines, Grand Canyon, AZ., Regd 29-Apr-2009.

• N178GC Grand Canyon Airlines, Grand Canyon AZ (Cortez Fisher LLC., Kirkland, WA) Regd 15-May-2009.

 Airworthiness Cert 14-Aug-2009.

• N178GC Leased to Seaborne Virgin Islands Inc, St Croix, USVI.,Aug-2009.

Incident: May 21, 2011, At about 16:00 Pacific Daylight Time, The aircraft operated by Grand Canyon Airlines for a local sightseeing tour of the Grand Canyon out of Boulder City, experienced an uncontained engine failure in the left engine (No. 1) while flying at an altitude of 5,500 feet mean sea level (MSL), about 3 miles northeast of Grand Canyon West Airport (1G4). The pilot made a safe and uneventful landing at Grand Canyon West Airport. Post flight inspection of the airplane revealed that engine parts had exited the engine casing and breached the engine cowl. No airplane damage was reported. All 17 persons on board including the crew were uninjured.

• N178GC Grand Canyon Airlines, Grand Canyon, AZ. Cortez Fisher LLC., Kirkland, WA. Canx 15-Nov-2012 to Costa Rica.

• TI-AZD Leased to Natureair, San Jose, Costa Rica. Regd 15-Nov-2012.

• N178GC Grand Canyon Airlines, Grand Canyon, AZ (Cortez Fisher LLC, Kirkland, WA). Regd 11-Jun-2014. Canx 15-Nov-2014.

Flew 10-Nov-2012 flew Boulder City, NV - Hermosillo, SO on the first leg of its delivery flight. Presumably leased to Nature Air once again. 10-Nov-2014 Boulder City, NV - Albuquerque-Double Eagle II, NM.

Flew 11-Nov-2014 Albuquerque-Double Eagle II, NM - Midland/Odessa, TX - Brownsville, TX 12-Nov-2014 Brownsville, TX - Veracruz, Mexico.

• TI-AZD Nature Air San Jose, Costa Rica. Regd 18-Nov-2014.

• N178GC Grand Canyon Airlines, Grand Canyon, AZ (Cortez Fisher LLC, Kirkland, WA). Regd 28-May-2015.

Airworthiness date 02-Jun-2015

Noted at Murrieta, CA on 08-Mar-2017 presumably undergoing Ikhana's "ReLife" program.

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PH-SSE at Zurich - LSZH, Switzerland.
Photo: Unknown photographer © Date unknown - Erik Johannesson Collection
NI78GC at Grand Canyon Airport, Arizona.
Photo: Erik Johannesson © Date unknown
NI78GC with GRAND CANYON AIRLINES titles.
Photo: Unknown photographer © August 1994 - Erik Johannesson Collection