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N68080 at Lake Hood, Anchorage.
Photo: John W. Olafson © 24 May 2019
N68080 at King Salmon - PAKN, Alaska.
Photo: Todd Boettcher © 18 July 2018
N68080 on heavy amphibs at PANC.
Photos: Ben Cogger © 27 May 2015
N68080 enjoys a break at King Salmon on the Naknek.
Photo: Jessica Veal © 20 October 2013
N68080 anticipates flight.
Photo: Ben Cogger © 09 April 2012
N68080 departs Lake Hood strip.
Photo: John P. Olafson © 24 May 2011
N68080 on the Renton ramp.
Photo: Steve Cos © 06 November 2009
N68080 at her Chelan base.
Photo: Brick Wellman © 24 September 2006
N68080 at the Chelan Airways Stehekin dock.
Photo: Brick Wellman © 04 October 2006
N68080 coasts into Sun Cove on the Columbia River.
Photo: Brick Wellman © 14 August 2005
N68080 at Stehekin, on Lake Chelan, Washington.
Photos: Klaus Marx © June 2004
N68080 docked on Lake Chelan.
Photos: Fred Barnes © 10 June 1999
53-3736 in Europe.
Photo: Unknown photographer © - Erik Frikke Collection (Tinted by Neil Aird)

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53-3736

N68080

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• 53-3736 US Army #1427. L-20 No: 428. Delivered 27-Aug-1954. Command A-4. Built as L-20A and re-designated U-6A in 1962.

• 53-3736 Stored at MASDC., Davis Monthan AFB., AZ. 10-Feb-1972 to 27-Feb-1976. PCN (Product Control Nimber) HS093. Declared excess on 04-Oct-1974.

Note: Purchased by Kenmore-at the Davis Monthan auction sale on 29-Jan-1976 forUS$22,000. Total hours 10,007.2 hours. Engine 7,079.2 hrs. Sold on the basis of “a reasonable potential for normal certification”. Comment at sale: oil cooler missing, tail condition poor.

• N68080 Kenmore Air Harbor Inc., Kenmore, WA. Regd 27-Feb-1976.

Mods include: Kenmore - mods including battery and alternator to firewall, water finlets, Sealand extended baggage kit, tip tanks, bubble windows to door and first fuselage window.

• N68080 H. E. (Ernie) Gibson, dba., Lake Chelan Air Service Inc., Chelan, WA. Regd Dec-1976.

• N68080 Lake Chelan Air Service Inc., Chelan, WA. Regd 18-Feb-1987. On USCAR at 02-Mar-1990 & 01-Oct-1994.

Note: Part of Northwest Seaplanes organisation.

Airworthiness Date: 21-Dec-2007. Classification - Standard.

Note: For sale at Northwest Seaplanes Feb 2008 for $345,000US.Total Time 27,059 hours.

• N68080 Warren N. Nolan, Chelan, WA. Regd 25-Feb-2008.

• N68080 River Front AKN., LLC., Anchorage, AK. Regd 02-May-2011. Expiry 31-May-2014.

Accident: King Salmon 19-Jul-2021 11:45 local: Two on board - no inj. NTSB ANC21LA062 they did not attend scene. Substantial damage.

• Status unknown •

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