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N4444Z with longer snout.
Photo:  Fergal Goodman © 15 May 2022 - Aird Archives
N4444Z departing once more.
Photo:  John W. Olafson © 09 July 2013
N4444Z caught on different days.
Photos: Todd Boettcher © 25 & 27 May 2016
N4444Z at the ready.
Photo: Todd Boettcher © 11 May 2016
N4444Z Spot the Beaver.
Photo: Todd Boettcher © 09 May 2016
N4444Z at Rust's home base - note single window.
Photo: Neil Aird © September 1995
N4444Z landing in channel at Lakes Spenard and Hood.
Photo: © John P. Stewart   
N4444Z taking winter break.
Photo:  ©  Derek Linder
N4444Z high and dry.
Photo: Unknown photographer © - Aird Archives
N123PG on the ramp at Merrill Field, Anchorage.
Photo: Kenneth I. Swartz © May 1987
N123PG floating at Fairbanks.
Photo: Paul V. Savora © July 1979 - Aird Archives

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58-1985 • N123PG

N4444Z

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• 58-1985 US Army # 1865. L-20 No. 866. Command A-16. Delivered 05-Feb-1959. Built as L-20A and re-designated U-6A in 1962.

• 58-1985 Stored at MASDC., Davis Monthan AFB., AZ. 22-Jun-1972 to 30-Jan-1976. PCN (Product Control Number) HS174.

Note: Purchased by Paul Gavora at the Davis Monthan auction sale on 29-Jan-1976 for $24,000US. Sold as “providing a reasonable potential for normal certification”. Total time 10,531.7 hours., engine 5,738.7 hours. Comments at sale included: three seats and average condition.

• N123PG Paul V. Gavora, Fairbanks, AK. Regd Oct-1976.

• N123PG Dave Egdorf, Dillingham, AK. T/a Dave Egdorf, Western Alaska Sport Fishing. Circa Jun-1987.

Accident: Sparrevohn, AK. 09-Jun-1987, On landing on a gravel bar on the Nushagak River pilot encountered wind shear and stalled and crashed onto the bar. NTSB report ANC87DAG02.

• N4444Z Rust's Flying Services, Anchorage, AK.

• N4444Z Rustair Inc., Anchorage, AK. Regd 13-Apr-1990.

Airworthiness date: 02-Oct-2009. Category - Experimental Classification and Research and Development.

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