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c/n 9

CF-FHE

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• Delivered 21/06/48

• CF-FHE Québec North Shore Paper Company

• Austin Airways, Toronto, ON

• Canx by 1964

• Fate unknown •

Disposed of 1958! Crashed in Northern Quebec after running out of fuel. (Milberry Austin Book)

From TSB records notes taken by Aird 19/03/97:

CF-FHE (Report 750) Fuel starvation (61.21N : 72.23W) 26/07/1959

Aircraft took off (inattention to fuel system) aircraft ran ashore, overturned and received substantial damage. Pilot and 2 pax okay.

Additional info:

16 Jun 48 - DeHavilland Inspection Release Certificate certified

30 Aug 48 – Certificate of Registration issued – H.H. Sewell, Baie Comeau, PQ

20 June/August? 1948 – Lease to Quebec North Shore Paper Company, Montreal, PQ

Dates confused on various documents – Lease to Atlas Aviation Ltd, Ottawa, ON.

30 August 1948 – Certificate of Airworthiness Issued

11 January 1955 – Certificate of Registration issued – Austin Airways, Toronto, ON.

13 August 1959 (Date of note on file) – “CF-FHE was damaged in an accident twenty-five miles from Wakeham Bay, Quebec.”

20 March 1968 – Confirmation that the aircraft was permanently withdrawn from service and CF-FHE deleted from the CCAR.