c/n 1098
56-0383 C-GUIH VP-FAT
C-FHVT*
• Delivered 07/06/57
• 56-0383 US Army • # 1686
• For sale @ Coleman Barracks, Mannheim - Sandhofen, Germany 02/74 • tt 5,190.0
• C-GUIH
• VP-FAT FIGAS • Purchased second hand in Canada by FI Government for FIGAS and, configured as a landplane, was flown via South America to Hookers Point airstrip (near Port Stanley), arriving there on 07/11/76. Flown from there to the Racecourse on 09/11/76 and stored in the nearby floatplane hangar pending delivery of floats from Canada. Once converted, it remained with FIGAS service until permanently grounded after the Argentinian Invasion on 02/04/82. Demolished by British Bombardments on 11-12/06/82 while parked outside the floatplane hangar. Its remains were gradually disposed of during 1982-83 • DBR 1982 @ Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. Noted in bits there 12/07/82
• Imported to Canada 1990
• C-FHVT regd 22/08/90 • Sudbury Aviation Ltd., Azilda / Whitewater Lake, ON
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